Version: 4.33 URL: http://www.siliconglen.com Archive-name: cultures/scottish/scottish-faq Posting-Frequency: 4 months Last-modified: 1-May-2006 The Internet's first guide to Scotland and Scottish culture. Foreword -------- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for the soc.culture.scottish usenet newsgroup and Scottish information likely to be of general interest. news:soc.culture.scottish

You are a sweet and intelligent guy. Unfortunately, your 'reading' of "Spirit on the Water" is so farcial, so skewed from any reality or desirable stretch of what the song is about, implies or signifies, that I am at a loss for words. If the idea and situation you evoked were only a parody of poor analysis, I would not laugh - but understand. But since you seem to be serious, I wonder if you're

Love this review, or perhaps more accurately, explication. I don't know if you have been following Chris Gregory's blog, http://www.chrisgregory.org/blog/ he is also doing some interesting writings on the Modern Times songs. One of the extraordinary and beguiling beauties of Bob's work is the multi layered meanings that even Dylan doesn't know, or hadn't been aware of in the writing. He talks

thanks for posting, David... I liked this short descriptive paragraph about 'Modern Times' in John Pareles' review of the New York City show in the New York Times - it's pithy and to-the-point but it does express the strange attractions of this album : "The songs from "Modern Times" can be as familiar as the 12-bar blues and as strange as a fever dream. They are crazy quilts of lovers' laments