Bob Dylan: Why We Can Never Know Him

Bob Dylan is not just a genius; Einstein is a genius. Bob Dylan makes the theory of relativity worth caring about at all: he is a seer. His songs about love and hate, about war and peace, about men and women, about sons and daughters, about kings and queens, about people and animals, about sky and sea, about earth and sun, about life and death, explain why Einstein toiled in his lab to find the theory of it all and came up with formulas that allow human beings to destroy themselves completely. Anything you need to know, it’s in a Dylan song. You’ve got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend is the thought, spoken and not, that has animated the history of the world, between international leaders and local lovers, and Bob Dylan makes it sound like nothing at all. It is the fact of relativity: we know we are being fucked with, and we love with a pure heart anyway, because what else is there to do?

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