20 Apr
Rogovoy's "earnest literary archeologist" & his "comparative search on the internet" is invented. http://tinyurl.com/6q6qe39 http://tinyurl.com/6n7r3wo
Here it is:
. . . and, as one particularly earnest literary archaeologist discovered through a comparative search on the Internet, a Japanese crime novel, Confessions of a Yakuza.
Love And Theft (2001) and Junichi Sagas gangster novel Confessions of a Yakuza were a baptism of fire for Warmuth and from there he established his rule through Timrodian Civil War. Or so it would seem something that personally I can take or leave. More frailer than the Googles these precious bugles that keep us so tightly fragmented. John Gibbens at http://www.touched.co.uk/press/moderntimes.html
Another twist of the Timrod tale is what it reveals about Modern Times and modern conditions. Scott Warmuth traced the allusion by putting Dylans phrase frailer than the flowers into Google. The point about Dylans plundering of old lyrics is that information technology makes it transparent.
As mud or as Dylans on-stage Locarno epiphany-metamorphosis in 1987: ten years too early going by the reckoning of the Dylan Time Out of Mindrebirth-through-mortality delusion. Lonesome Day Blues:
I'm gonna spare the defeated - I'm gonna speak to the crowd I'm gonna spare the defeated, boys, I'm going to speak to the crowd I am goin' to teach peace to the conquered I'm gonna tame the proud
Matthew 11 (NIV)
11I tell you the truth: Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 12From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it.
ENOUGH of those who study the oblique, Inverted archaeologists, who seek The New, as if it were some quaint antique Dylan on Empire Burlesque in 1985:
Something is burning, baby, heres what I say Even the bloodhounds of London couldnt find you today
Sara Dylan lives by the sea and prays for each yakuza, the same as you or me Paul Kirkman 2012