He Wandered the Earth as an Exiled Man; Bob Dylan's New Book Juxtaposes Roots and Rootlessness; Chronicles: Volume One

From: Forward | Date: February 4, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Michaelson, Jay
Forward
02-04-2005
By Bob Dylan

Simon & Schuster, 304 pages, $24.

Toward the end of last year's rambling, barely coherent film "Masked and
Anonymous," Bob Dylan, its masked and anonymous star, spoke in voice-over
one of his most direct and self-revelatory addresses. Fittingly, it was
about the limits of what we are allowed to know:

I was always a singer -- maybe no more than that.

Sometimes it's not enough to know the meaning of things.

Sometimes you have to know what things don't mean as well.

Like, what does it mean to knOW what the person you love is capable of?

Things fall ...

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