The Crying of Lot 49, Group Read 2024

[Mark Kohut]

If the three bums in this great song are loosely associated with the
anarchists in black then that's yours.

They are not to me.....Dylan's bums here are not even close to the
anarchist associations in Pynchon or his own
Watchtower song imo.......

These bums are us.....

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 8:08 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

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