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   Message 101,590 of 103,360   
   Pamela Brown to Pamela Brown   
   Re: The "Dark" songs written between Des   
   11 Jul 21 10:20:14   
   
   From: pamelajfk1@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 2:07:17 PM UTC-5, Pamela Brown wrote:   
   > 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 ...   
   How could I forget Prince?   
   And Miles Davis...he has had such a profound influence on my life that Miles   
   is my horse's nickname...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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