He answered that one a decade later: “The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keepin on, like a bird that flew / Tangled up in blue.” I interpret that to mean no, nobody is free of the world they move through, no matter how free they may look and feel.
I would like to discuss Finnegan's Wake with him. I'm reading it atm and it seems like a book he has certainly read and enjoyed, and may perhaps have influenced him.
*Shem was a sham and a low sham and his lowness creeped out first via foodstuffs. So low was he that he preferred Gibsen’s tea-time salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest roeheavy lax or the friskiest parr or smolt troutlet that ever was gaffed between Leixlip and Island Bridge and many was the time he repeated in his botulism that no junglegrown pineapple ever smacked like the whoppers you shook out of Ananias’ cans, Findlater and Gladstone’s, Corner House, Englend.*
*None of your inchthick blueblooded Balaclava fried-at-belief-stakes or juicejelly legs of the Grex’s molten mutton or greasilygristly grunters’ goupons or slice upon slab of luscious goosebosom with lump after load of plumpudding stuffing all aswim in a swamp of bogoakgravy for that greekenhearted yude! Rosbif of Old Zealand!*
Do you have any resources that make Joyce easier to read? I've tried with Ulysses, I tried with Portrait; I just can't get into it, but I really wish I could.
Finnegans Wake is one of the strangest books ever written. There's no chance that anyone can ever plumb it's depths entirely. It is dense with puns, jokes, literary, biblical and historical references and made-up words that can never be fully understood. Even professors of English are at sea with this book. So, I have just been enjoying it as poetry and surreal wordplay. Like Tarantula.
There's various websites that give you clues... I started off with the Wiki article, which gives a good background as any.
I've been reading Ulysses on and off for more than 40 years. It's easier than Finnegans Wake but saying that, it's still a tough nut to crack. I got a 4CD audiobook of part of it (the entire book would take about 18 Cds) and it's good to hear it read out loud.
Again, just start with the Wiki article to get your bearings and then just google the title for a site with more depth, for instance, this is a good one. There's 18 pages of it though :/
[https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/ulysses/summary/](https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/ulysses/summary/)
Wow! Sounds like dense venture and it's consoling to hear I don't need to be rushed to finish it and it can be an ongoing project. Thank you for your response! Bless!
Give Portrait another try. It’s a great book. I’ve read it three times.
I got through Ulysses once. Three months working night shifts in an air base jail. I didn’t make it in my second attempt
I’ve never made it past a few pages of Wake.
You might try A Shorter Finnigan’s Wake by Anthony Burgess (I’ve not read it).
Joyce’s collection of short stories are good
Sometimes reading a bio of an author can help with understanding their work. I recommend Richard Ellmann’s book.
A great book on the pre-war literary scene in Paris is Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation by Noel Riley Fitch.
My unachievable (and selfish) dream is to share with him some of what I've written and see if he sees any merit in it. I have imagined that if I could throw Bob a couple couplets, my journey, so far, would be complete.
But I find solace in the belief that Bob sees all matters of expression as valid and capable of growth. He doesn't stop at his masterpieces; they continue to grow and evolve the more he plays them, decades later. With that in mind, I don't even need to have a hypothetical conversation with him, because he's demonstrated how mutable a set of words and music can be throughout his legendary career.
Still, I wish I could talk to him about writing and where to take the things I've done.
But that's fantasy, and I also believe that Bob believes in the "real world," one that can only be described if you think outside the box and use fantastical elements to make that description even close to believable.
Was the “eyes” on the chorus of Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands intended to be a verb or a noun?
1. “My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums”
2. “My warehouse eyes my Arabian drums”
But, if I met him, I probably wouldn’t ask anything. lol
I would like him to stop by my house for a cocktail and sit and listen to music, let him pick whatever LPs he wants from my collection and see where the conversation goes.
Hell, that applies to anybody with a deep love and knowledge of music.
I'd ask him about the meaning of the album cover Highway 61 Revisited and the symbolism of the motorcycle while licking my lips and giving him the crazy eyes.
There's a video of a car pulling up and out gets Joan Baez. She goes over to some ppl in a van and asks the driver if he'd like to meet Bob Dylan. Sure he said. Dylan gets out and walks right by this guy with hardly a word and approaches some kids. A lesson here. If that ever happens to me I will say The question is does Bob want to meet me? Then I'd be on my way.
"what the fuck are you doing in my house"
Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?
He answered that one a decade later: “The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keepin on, like a bird that flew / Tangled up in blue.” I interpret that to mean no, nobody is free of the world they move through, no matter how free they may look and feel.
How mysterious.
Is it rolling, Bob?
Do you remember Durango?
I was in Durango last week and annoyed the shit out of my lady by constantly asking Remember Durango Larry??
I would like to discuss Finnegan's Wake with him. I'm reading it atm and it seems like a book he has certainly read and enjoyed, and may perhaps have influenced him. *Shem was a sham and a low sham and his lowness creeped out first via foodstuffs. So low was he that he preferred Gibsen’s tea-time salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest roeheavy lax or the friskiest parr or smolt troutlet that ever was gaffed between Leixlip and Island Bridge and many was the time he repeated in his botulism that no junglegrown pineapple ever smacked like the whoppers you shook out of Ananias’ cans, Findlater and Gladstone’s, Corner House, Englend.* *None of your inchthick blueblooded Balaclava fried-at-belief-stakes or juicejelly legs of the Grex’s molten mutton or greasilygristly grunters’ goupons or slice upon slab of luscious goosebosom with lump after load of plumpudding stuffing all aswim in a swamp of bogoakgravy for that greekenhearted yude! Rosbif of Old Zealand!*
Do you have any resources that make Joyce easier to read? I've tried with Ulysses, I tried with Portrait; I just can't get into it, but I really wish I could.
Finnegans Wake is one of the strangest books ever written. There's no chance that anyone can ever plumb it's depths entirely. It is dense with puns, jokes, literary, biblical and historical references and made-up words that can never be fully understood. Even professors of English are at sea with this book. So, I have just been enjoying it as poetry and surreal wordplay. Like Tarantula. There's various websites that give you clues... I started off with the Wiki article, which gives a good background as any. I've been reading Ulysses on and off for more than 40 years. It's easier than Finnegans Wake but saying that, it's still a tough nut to crack. I got a 4CD audiobook of part of it (the entire book would take about 18 Cds) and it's good to hear it read out loud. Again, just start with the Wiki article to get your bearings and then just google the title for a site with more depth, for instance, this is a good one. There's 18 pages of it though :/ [https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/ulysses/summary/](https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/ulysses/summary/)
Wow! Sounds like dense venture and it's consoling to hear I don't need to be rushed to finish it and it can be an ongoing project. Thank you for your response! Bless!
Give Portrait another try. It’s a great book. I’ve read it three times. I got through Ulysses once. Three months working night shifts in an air base jail. I didn’t make it in my second attempt I’ve never made it past a few pages of Wake. You might try A Shorter Finnigan’s Wake by Anthony Burgess (I’ve not read it). Joyce’s collection of short stories are good Sometimes reading a bio of an author can help with understanding their work. I recommend Richard Ellmann’s book. A great book on the pre-war literary scene in Paris is Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation by Noel Riley Fitch.
Thank you¡
Sorry, I didn’t quite catch that — what was it again?
I wouldn't ask anything, I would listen.
My unachievable (and selfish) dream is to share with him some of what I've written and see if he sees any merit in it. I have imagined that if I could throw Bob a couple couplets, my journey, so far, would be complete. But I find solace in the belief that Bob sees all matters of expression as valid and capable of growth. He doesn't stop at his masterpieces; they continue to grow and evolve the more he plays them, decades later. With that in mind, I don't even need to have a hypothetical conversation with him, because he's demonstrated how mutable a set of words and music can be throughout his legendary career. Still, I wish I could talk to him about writing and where to take the things I've done. But that's fantasy, and I also believe that Bob believes in the "real world," one that can only be described if you think outside the box and use fantastical elements to make that description even close to believable.
How do you like your pizza?
Would you like to play golf after the current tour?
How many people who labor in the same musical vineyard in which you toil - how many are protest singers?
Was the “eyes” on the chorus of Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands intended to be a verb or a noun? 1. “My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums” 2. “My warehouse eyes my Arabian drums” But, if I met him, I probably wouldn’t ask anything. lol
Did you play Fourth Time Around for John Lennon, and did you ever talk about that with him after Norweigan Wood?
How many roads \*must\* a man walk down. Bob?
Do you think you can live here in my head rent-free?
Did you find that place you set out to find all those years back?
I would like him to stop by my house for a cocktail and sit and listen to music, let him pick whatever LPs he wants from my collection and see where the conversation goes. Hell, that applies to anybody with a deep love and knowledge of music.
Apparently he was asked once if he could ask Woody Guthrie and he said "I would ask where woody gets his drugs"
I'd ask him about the meaning of the album cover Highway 61 Revisited and the symbolism of the motorcycle while licking my lips and giving him the crazy eyes.
How did you write all those songs? What did it feel like to constantly have a masterpiece swimming around in your head?
There's a video of a car pulling up and out gets Joan Baez. She goes over to some ppl in a van and asks the driver if he'd like to meet Bob Dylan. Sure he said. Dylan gets out and walks right by this guy with hardly a word and approaches some kids. A lesson here. If that ever happens to me I will say The question is does Bob want to meet me? Then I'd be on my way.
Did you and Joan ever... you know...
I'd ask him to co-write a song. Something apocalyptic.