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365 Moby Dick, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Odyssey (A Bob Dylan Reading List) | PLUS Some thoughts on Charles M. Schulz

The History of Literature

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What Does a Song Mean?

I don't have to know what a song mean. Si've written all kinds of things into my songs, and i'm not going to worry about it what it all means. The words in shakespeare's plays were meant to be acted on the sta just as lyrics in songs are meant to be sung, not read on a page. That's what songs are too. Our songs are alive in the land of the living. But songs are unlike literature. They're meant to be sing, not read.

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