J. H. Prynne
- Thread starter version
- Start date
-
- Tags
- 100 god damn pages butchering sontag cooking with propane corpsey why are you so thick deaths from bromo-dragonfly enjoy your journey enjoy! everyone! gravity bong happy to help! jamaican voodoo gang from predator 2 lads vs. dudes martin anus shaun from delaware stoned modernism teat. the albert ayler of the recorder the bee is the messiah the path clears by the use it gets thick as fuck to pollen traitor cow-juice west coast dudes
mvuent
Void Dweller
yes.
linebaugh
Well-known member
I think Bob does the surrealist thing. Its experimentation with how feelings can be delivered, where the guys we are talking about are experimenting with how meaning is delivered
Do you know Bob? Are you Bob?
linebaugh
Well-known member
Oh shit I thouht you were talking about Bob Dylan. Acquabob is fascinated by The Tunnel because its probably the most writerly book Ive ever read. And Im sure theres alot to be excavated from it, but its pretty easy to read like a standard story if you wanted to
@suspendedreason posted something to do with Gass recently.
It was a piece called The Death of the Author!
salmagundi.skidmore.edu
The Death Of The Author - Salmagundi Magazine
Popular wisdom warns us that we frequently substitute the wish for the deed, and when, in 1968, Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, he was actually calling for it.<sup><a href="#fn1" ...
salmagundi.skidmore.edu
The Dissensus Framework
The sexy pendulum 😂 Wonder why that never caught on. your tombstone will read "here lies Corpsey - discoverer of the sexy pendulum". get used to it.
dissensus.com
mvuent
Void Dweller
lol, i thought you were talking about bob dylan too. it did seem like a non sequitur but i had to let the people know.
linebaugh
Well-known member
In Bobs defense, The Tunnel is overwhelming. Very claustrophobic. The writing is incredibly rich, to its own detriment. He's the inverse Dellilo: rather than trying to make every other line some grave slogan fitting of a furrow browed, strong silent type, Gass tries to make every other sentence the long winded, profound and poetic closer that caps off some deeply serious rant.
Relevant.
What the mentally disturbed Dylanologists have never understood over the course of Zimmy’s six-decade spanning career is that to scour the man’s lyrics for hidden truths is a fool’s errand. It’s a simple trick to understand Bob Dylan, really: all you have to do is approach his lyrics at their apparent meaning. So when Dylan crows:
“Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you
And then he kneels
He crosses himself
And then he clicks his high heels
And without further notice
He asks you how it feels
And he says, "Here is your throat back
Thanks for the loan"
there’s no need to dig further than the emotive qualities of the image itself. Dylan has always been something of a lyrical impressionist: his songs are tone poems which seek to promote feelings of unrest or longing or confusion or disenfranchisement or indignation depicted within the given snippet of narrative that Dylan loves to ornament his songs with. To deconstruct more rigorously is to miss the point—like trying to appreciate a painting with a microscope.
What the mentally disturbed Dylanologists have never understood over the course of Zimmy’s six-decade spanning career is that to scour the man’s lyrics for hidden truths is a fool’s errand. It’s a simple trick to understand Bob Dylan, really: all you have to do is approach his lyrics at their apparent meaning. So when Dylan crows:
“Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you
And then he kneels
He crosses himself
And then he clicks his high heels
And without further notice
He asks you how it feels
And he says, "Here is your throat back
Thanks for the loan"
there’s no need to dig further than the emotive qualities of the image itself. Dylan has always been something of a lyrical impressionist: his songs are tone poems which seek to promote feelings of unrest or longing or confusion or disenfranchisement or indignation depicted within the given snippet of narrative that Dylan loves to ornament his songs with. To deconstruct more rigorously is to miss the point—like trying to appreciate a painting with a microscope.
mvuent
Void Dweller
for me it's not really a matter of being a fan of his work or not, i just think there's a lot of evidence that supports that conclusion.