Dylan’s Odyssey

Dylan’s Odyssey

A man, no longer young, with a history of having wanted to be famous; then, having achieved that in a rush, of hiding out from an adoring and rapacious world. With a history, too, of saying, writing, and singing the opposite of what he means, or not quite what he means, and sometimes not even knowing what he means, yet always, presumably, pledged to a species of truth-telling. On some occasions when Dylan has sung what he means straight out, he has later retracted it and disabused many who th...


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