I've read them all, actually. I even read Finnegan's Wake, some of it. I love Dylan, but he even admitted that on Like a Rolling Stone he started losing it, with the chrome horse, diplomat and Siamese cat and so on... same thing here.
Have even read Rimbaud or Baudelaire? In A Season in Hell and in all of The Flowers of Evil, there's precise, clear imagery throughout. Do you just throw toss out those names because they've been mentioned before in conjunction with Dylan? Joyce is tricky with his Finnegan's Wake word coinages, which can sound like nonsense, but even those can be broken down into explainable images. Joseph Campbell wrote a whole book about Finnegan's Wake, that's a key to unravelling it. Dylan worshippers strike me like fundamentalist Christians, repeating things they heard and don't understand but take as dogma, it's like Dylan has become godlike and something you can't question. Which is oddly disturbing, though there are more important things being distorted and misunderstood these days.
I said it was funny, some of it... the hysterical bride verse is funny in a pretty dark way... I like absurdist humor, I just like it make absurd sense... is that asking too much? I love Robyn Hitchcock, and sometimes he's not particularly understandable, but it's by design, not by accident.
I've read them all, actually. I even read Finnegan's Wake, some of it. I love Dylan, but he even admitted that on Like a Rolling Stone he started losing it, with the chrome horse, diplomat and Siamese cat and so on... same thing here.
My guess is that you don't get Rimbaud, Baudelaire, or even James Joyce, either.
You don't have to be introduced to someone - they'll tell you who they are.
Have even read Rimbaud or Baudelaire? In A Season in Hell and in all of The Flowers of Evil, there's precise, clear imagery throughout. Do you just throw toss out those names because they've been mentioned before in conjunction with Dylan? Joyce is tricky with his Finnegan's Wake word coinages, which can sound like nonsense, but even those can be broken down into explainable images. Joseph Campbell wrote a whole book about Finnegan's Wake, that's a key to unravelling it. Dylan worshippers strike me like fundamentalist Christians, repeating things they heard and don't understand but take as dogma, it's like Dylan has become godlike and something you can't question. Which is oddly disturbing, though there are more important things being distorted and misunderstood these days.
It's the brilliants of komputters on editing. That remains uncorrected
It's a hilarious song, not Shakespearean, but easily as funny as any speech by Bottom.
I said it was funny, some of it... the hysterical bride verse is funny in a pretty dark way... I like absurdist humor, I just like it make absurd sense... is that asking too much? I love Robyn Hitchcock, and sometimes he's not particularly understandable, but it's by design, not by accident.
like it to make ... I hate typos, and how they don't let you edit these comment things
Clearly, the writer has no sense of humor and does not recognize it in Tombstone Blues.
yes, Paul, you got me. I haven't laughed in so long my smile muscles have atrophied.