The Crying of Lot 49, Group Read 2024

[Joseph Tracy]

...
There’s three bums comin’ all dressed in rags
Pick up the pieces and lower the flags...

They mutilated his body and took out his brain
What more could they do, they piled on the pain
But his soul was not there where it was supposed to be at
For the last fifty years they’ve been searching for that
Freedom, oh freedom, freedom over me
Hate to tell you, Mister, but only dead men are free
              Murder Most Foul.     Bob Dylan


> On Jun 19, 2024, at 5:57 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> P. "the anarchist dressed all in black"....like Driblette's assassins
> and the Tystero Force....the main part--the essence of it?
> 
> Which is why it is disruptive but also sometimes violent?
> 
> I often think of Dylan's two men on horseback in *All Along the Watchtower*
> 
> and Pynchon's two riders in* Against the Day....*
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