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Question: What does Dylan's Desolation Row mean!?
Did he even know!?

Do you know!? I don't!.

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Good though, isn't it!? Www@QuestionHome@Com

awww geeze, thanks for the memories !.!.

even a stream of consciousness by an extermely gifted poet
contains the first noble truth !.!.!.

sexual overtones scatered thru out

there is suffering in life

" !.!. out on Desolation row"


by the way

"Highway 61" a legendary road in the southern delta
where the greatest blues musician of all time
(Robert Johnson) is repted to have sold his soul
to the devil by making a deal "at the crossroad"

[Cream "Crossroad" E Clapton]

carrying on a tradition started in the day of Nicolo Paganini
who is also reputrd to have made such a deal (and became
the greatest violinist of all time !.!. the Muhammad Ali
of Violin !.!. the greatest)


"Highway 61 Revisited"]

Dylan (some say) also made such a deal
sheer urban legend perhaps, but one of the greatest
musical influences of te 20th centuryWww@QuestionHome@Com

Dylan confessed a while back that his song's have no deeper meaning!.They're word combinations that sound good!. So any meaning you confer to his songs is valid!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It's all explained @ http://www!.cit!.gu!.edu!.au/~davidt/desolat!.!.!.
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