Bob Dylan in the NYT. Bob Dylan, some kind of friend of Thomas Pynchon....some kind of resonance with Tom, I say from ATD and words on time In OBAA...

[Mark Kohut]

That's Kings line .....

On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 7:54 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joyce Carol Oates, who dedicated a youthful prize-winning story to Bob on
> Bob now....this is pure later Bob of at least two great albums and the
> Kinds line echoes the JFK song...
>
> https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2066609033767751753?s=20
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The really worst part about being 80 is that you find, at last, you’ve
>> got an understanding of something that might have altered everything in the
>> past, had it come at a time when something could still be altered. When
>> you’re young you think that time moves forward. At 80 you know that it
>> doesn’t, it stands still. We’re the ones that move.
>>
>