NP nor Pandemic. We can all talk about this new song and why Bob released it now?

[gary webb]

In the first part of Dylan's Chronicles (Volume One) he talks about his
influences during the early 60s as the folk scene in NYC was catching fire:

"There were other things laying around that would catch your eye-chalk
sketches of Ferraris and Ducatis, books about Amazon women, Pharonic Egypt,
photo books of circus acrobats, lovers, graveyards. There weren't any big
bookstores around, so it would have been hard to find these books in any
one place. I like biographies a lot and read part of one about Frederick of
Prussia, I was surprised to find out was also a composer. I looked through
Vom Kriege, the Clausewitz book. They called Clausewitz the premier
philosopher of war (Pg. 41)"

More on Clausewitz on pg 45: "There isn't any moral order. You can forget
that. Morality has nothing in common with politics. It's not there to
transgress. It's either high or low ground. This is the way the world is
and nothing's gonna change it. It's a crazy, mixed up world and you have to
look it right in the eye. Clausewitz in some ways is a prophet. Without
realizing it, some of the stuff in his book can shape your ideas. If you
think you're a dreamer, you can read this stuff and realize you're not even
capable of dreaming. Dreaming is dangerous. Reading Clausewitz makes you
take your own thoughts a little less seriously."




On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:52 AM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> something from the Guardian on Dylan:
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/27/bob-dylan-murder-most-foul-review-jfk-assassination-john-f-kennedy
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 1:14 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > maybe Bob knows something we don't?
> >
> > Kidding, but this speaks directly to a number of my hobby-horses: the JFK
> > assassination, the 1950s in America, Bob Dylan &c (see also DeLillo's
> > Americana, James Ellroy's "American Tabloid" trilogy (with a volume
> > "Blood's a Rover", which was an early title for V.), David Bowman's Big
> > Bang, etc.)
> >
> > even still, I found the song ... unmoving.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 12:31 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> https://twitter.com/bobdylan/status/1243389605451198465?s=20
> >> --
> >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >>
> >
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