Re: Guns n' stuff
jordie chambers (jordiekc@rocketmail.com)
Thu, 13 May 1999 14:14:24 -0700 (PDT)
---Robert Morris <winboog@gis.net> wrote:
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> >I want to talk about a Perfect Day for Bananafish. Does
> >anyone else love Seymour like I do?
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> >
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> Bob Dylan has said that his religion ( and I wish
Will weren't in Italy
> right now , so that he could pipe in with more
interesting Dylan info than
> I can provide here) is the old songs like Hank Williams
singing, I Saw the
> Light. I might say that I have dabbled in the beliefs
of the short tall man
> by modern standards. I am also aware that hair seems to
jump on me in the
> barber shop at an alarming rate.
>
>
> What I mean is, "Stop looking at my Goddamn feet."
>
> Robert Morris
> winboog@gis.net
>
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Dylan was way angrier than Seymour, to compare them. I'd
say It's Allright, Ma is one of his best, because it
exposes him for what he saw and felt during the time he
was twenty two or so. Blonde on Blonde, Bringing It All
Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited - Raw Pureness ! He was
an angry fella at that age; I'm 22 and feel the same
disconcertment with life. I call it the santaclaus
syndrome because everything you once believed has changed
in a way, for me, that I'd spin the world the other way
for it to change. No time machine, so, bitterness stings,
much like it did Bob Dylan. Seymour was so excited for
life, had so much love to give, so vulnerable to the
world, and yet he exposed all of himself to possible pain.
Dylan was a kaleidoscopic personality, always changing,
covering his face with his trenchcoat and returning as
someone else, you couldn't put your finger on Bob Dylan
because 'I got nothin, Ma, to live up to,' he has no
ground to stand on, he just wanted to sing and play music,
his angriness and bitterness stifled his purity. Of
course, Dylan was real, and Seymour never was, really.
But it is a nifty comparison. Seymour struck me as a
loving, giving, brittle and Godly man. Dylan doesn't do
that for me. Two cents, Jord.
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