Maggie's Farm

I enjoyed the article by Will Self (long a favorite author) to which you linked so much I read the other entires in his blog.

Here is another worthwhile one that returns us to to the Dylan theme of this site.

http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/garment-district/

excerpts:

I had a CD of Bob Dylan’s “Theme Time Radio Hour” on the car stereo, and he was spinning a platter that yodeled about “waltzing across Texas.” The mythopoeic world of American folk music is one of a radical heterogeneity, where one pays is altogether distinct from the next.

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I only belabor this because while some contemporary writers take the poet Petrarch as their guide up Mont Ventoux, I preferred Dylan. True, Petrarch wrote about his 1336 ascent — the first, he claimed, since antiquity — while Dylan has probably never heard of the place, but Petrarch, writing in Latin, was one of the globalizers of his day, while Bob — for all his ubiquity — remains a profound localist. Besides, Bob would probably have loved the drive, as the sun rose, and the maquis turned a greeny-gold.

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Petrach climbed Ventoux with a copy of Augustine’s “Confessions,” stopping occasionally to take spiritual sustenance from random readings.

Off topic P.S.: Watched I'm Not There for the first time last night. Cate 's rocking version of Maggie's Farm made me think of your site.

Ain't GONNA work on Maggie's Farm no mo