Re: Religion when I die
- From: Jumbo <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 04:16:29 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 1, 4:06 pm, vernon__bris...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Aug 1, 3:53 pm, Jumbo <ch...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 1, 2:11 pm, Mr Jinx <vernon__bris...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do you have to be religious to properly 'get' Bob?
Mr Jinx
Can anyone who thinks it is possible to "properly 'get'" Bob properly
get Bob?
Quite. We all fail to get Bob.
But do those of us without religion fail more spectacularly?
OK, but I wouldn't use the word "fail". I'd say it can make for a
skewed understanding of Dylan's aims.
I always followed Paul Williams's verdict on Baby Stop Crying, about
the narrator being a jerk for whinging about the woman crying. It
wasn't till I stumbled on an account of the angels who appeared to
Magdalene at the tomb of Jesus, where they ask her "Woman, why weepest
thou?", that I got (what I think is) a fuller response to the song.
Since Magdalene is often used allegorically in devotional literature
to represent a devout person's over-reliance on physical presence to
support their faith, it becomes possible to see Dylan as the woman
addressed by an angel. So it's no longer necessarily a case of seeing
Dylan as the jerk of a narrator. Makes the angel seem quite nasty,
though. Which is interesting.
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