oldbulee Wrote:
song rules. i've always thought it was about how our romantized views on life are not what they're cracked up to be, but who knows. One of the reasons I think Highway 61 is better than Blonde on Blonde is this song.
Exhibit #2456 about how we seem to think alike most of the time.
Wasn't there a big controversy about this in the lat 90s b/c the Poet Laureate of England declared this the best poem of the 20th Century?
There's no great link, but if you google "desolation row" and "Andrew Motion" you can get the gist.
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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)
