Dylan's Visions of Sin, |
I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse, |
That's not the same thing as saying that the latest account that he gives should be unmistakably taken as the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I wouldn't say he never wanted to be followed or be called a leader. (But) he probably wanted it less than it seemed at the time. |
The one thing worse than not living for ever would be living for ever |
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. |