NP: Re: more new Dylan

Toby Levy tobyglevy at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 23:02:48 UTC 2020


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdhENdBYqdo

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:43 PM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> I can quote large portions of Dylan's lyrics from the Sixties and early
> Seventies by heart. I am familiar with the distinction between the
> narrator, the implied author and the author. I do not think that irony
> is something like goldy or bronzy and that Dylan's lyrics often are not
> to be taken literally. I know Whitman's "Song of Myself" to which the
> song title "I Contain Multitudes" refers. I know that Dylan has Jewish
> roots.
>
> Still, this --
>
> "I’m just like Anne Frank, like Indiana Jones
> And them British bad boys, the Rolling Stones
> I go right to the edge, I go right to the end
> I go right where all things lost are made good again"
>
> -- seems inappropriate to me. Can someone explain?
>
>
> Am 20.04.2020 um 19:10 schrieb ish mailian:
> >
> https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/17/anne-frank-indiana-jones-bob-dylan-new-song-contain-multitudes
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