sorry, my "inner pit bull" requires completing this

Okay, so this post got lost and then truncated. Here's the last bit. (on the subject of seeing the documentary Don't Look Back five times and still totally missing Dylan's unkind treatment of Baez:

My reaction to the relevant portions was along the lines of, "Look it's Joan Baez. What a beautiful voice. Love is Just a Four-Letter Word. Cool song."

Of course, I was 16 and paying attention to the poetry, the James Dean-ish, hyper-cool edge that Dylan was presenting, and the spectacle. I had to have that whole interaction explained to me 40 years later.

There may be others who have not forgiven Bob Dylan for other transgressions of the 60s. As a Buddhist, of course, I would wish Dylan (and everyone really) to make the best possible karmic choices. And maybe it's the chip of ice in my writer's heart speaking here. Although I can't imagine what it would be like to be gifted with a talent such as Dylan's, I've always thought that his first loyalty was to his creative genius, and I would have regretted it if he'd been nicer and written less.

Bob Dylan has a web site, who knew? http://bobdylan.com/index.html







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