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   Message 101,587 of 103,360   
   Pamela Brown to M. Rick   
   Re: The "Dark" songs written between Des   
   10 Jul 21 12:07:15   
   
   From: pamelajfk1@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 2:58:14 PM UTC-5, M. Rick wrote:   
   > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 4:07:40 AM UTC-7, Will Dockery wrote:   
   > > Do you have examples of those you suspect?   
   > - number of Dylan items in one's possession   
   > - amount of money and time spent on Dylan   
   > - using the phrase "true Dylan fan" (or equivalent like "true Jew") to   
   distinguish the enlightened from the rest   
   > - obsession with Dylan's personal life   
   > - Dylan shrines or pictorial displays around the house   
   > - notion that Dylan is the messiah and/or Jesus   
   > - notion that Dylan is a prophet sent by God   
   > - notion that Dylan stands alone among the history of the world's artists   
   > - religious and moral rationalizations for idolatry   
   In other words, a state, or, in my case, it seems a world, of Utter   
   Dylerium...Everywhere I go I see or hear a quote from one of his songs...   
   The only possible remedy is to (only temporarily, of course) completely   
   withdraw from all things Dylan and focus on music of others, until sanity   
   gradually reappears...   
   I suggest:   
   Mozart   
   Metallica   
   Nirvana   
   AC/DC   
   Bruce Springsteen   
   Mahler   
   The Beatles   
   Songs of faith (we have KTIS in the Twin Cities)   
   Early blues, such as Robert Johnson   
   Elvis Presley   
   Donovan (my late husband played and recorded with him ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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