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

[Mark Kohut]

Nice....

I think Dylan may have added some dark vision to the death of the Fisher
king motif.
Dead King Arthur and all the dead lands, The Wasteland in here too (and we
know Eliot
borrowed from From Ritual to Romance if I remember correctly) and

yes, death, all that Shakespearean death all over the wasteland since
Camelot ended.

for Merchant I say.....money, Trump's god........and Lady Macbeth because T
accepts no responsibility...
just looseness of connections, I know....but seven types of ambiguity often
happen very loosely.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 5:31 AM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> I am not saying you're wrong, just that the first thing one notes surely
> is that Bob Dylan is a conspiracy theorist.
>
> As for the archetypes... The song comes across as an elegy for a country
> or world gone wrong because of the most foul murder of the "king". If
> this is true, the ailing Fisher King of Arthurian legend does not work
> as a frame of reference, and neither does Frazer's sacrifice of a dying
> king for the good of the kingdom. Yes, the assassination is depicted as
> a "human sacrifice", a ritual slaughter performed on "the altar of the
> rising sun", but the killing of the king does not lead to the
> restoration of a barren wasteland but to strife and civil unrest.  The
> allusions to Shakespeare therefore seem more apt, even though I wonder
> why, besides "Hamlet", "The Merchant of Venice" and Lady Macbeth are
> singled out for reference.
>
> Apart from the references to the murder itself, the most peculiar aspect
> of the lyrics is the interlocking of motifs from assassination lore and
> from popular culture. Is this just free-wheelin' association, or is
> there more to it?
>
> Also, I find some of the lyrics awful. The clumsy opening or "I'm just a
> patsy like Patsy Cline" -- this is not very good, is it?
>
> Related listening:
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> https://www.themetimeradio.com/
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