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The Biblical origins of Bob Dylan's IT'S ALRIGHT MA (I'm Only Bleeding)
12.4.08
In Ecclesiastes, King Solomon explains what he set out to accomplish thusly:
"I applied my mind to seek and probe by wisdom all that happens beneath the sky … I have seen all the deeds done beneath the sun, and behold all is futile…."
In "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," Bob Dylan renders this more poetically:
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.
--excerpted from BOB DYLAN: Prophet, Mystic, Jew, by Seth Rogovoy, due from Scribner Books in late 2009
12/4/2008
Hey Seth,
Congrats on the book. It sounds like one I've been trying to write ;-).
www. martingrossman.net
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12/4/2008
So THAT'S the book you're writing. Excellent!
--David H.
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12/5/2008
Dylan's words were written at the height of his country's involvement in Vietnam, and I think he's prophesying the doom and corruption of American power, glory and affluence at the very moment of her apparent zenith. Military megalomania and materialism.
It's also an apparent allusion to the death of another notorious Jewish mystic prophet, when the sky grew black at midday, and God screamed in silent agony in the birth pains of mankind's redemption.
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12/5/2008
more poetically than king solomon!
you don't read biblical hebrew do you.
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12/6/2008
You don't read women authors, do you?
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