Re: What Is ...?--(mostly playful) musings

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

Thank you, Wolf, for having those Dylan verses to hand.

Nobody ever mentions Leonard Cohen here: is it wrong to do so?  He wrote a 
refrain
that speaks of an imperfect creation, still waiting for our help:

    Ring the bells that still can ring
    Forget your perfect offering
    There is a crack, a crack in everything
    That's how the light gets in.

            Leonard Cohen,  _Anthem_



Kame'a Media wrote:

> Bob Dylan:  The Jewish Poet in Search of G-d
>
> > _I,_ FWIW
> > (no doubt little), have my personal nominee for the most Jewish line he ever
> > wrote--a free brownie or cupcake for whoever can identify it!
>
> "And like Goliath they'll be conquered"
>                       (When the Ship Comes In)
>
> "They murdered six million; in ovens they fried
> The Germans now too have G-d on their side"
>                           (With G-d On Their Side)
>
> "G-d said to Abraham: "Kill me a son"
> Abe said: "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
>                                      (Highway 61 Revisited)
>
> With a time-rusted compass lamp
> Aladdin and his lamp
> Sits with Utopian hermit monks
> Side-saddle on the Golden Calf
> And on their promises of paradise
> You will not hear a laugh
> All except inside the Gates of Eden
>                                   (Gates of Eden)
>
> Wolf
>

--
Owen Davidson
Amherst  Mass
The Wholesale Klezmer Band

Wherever we turn in the storm of roses,
the night is lit up by thorns, and the thunder
of leaves, once so quiet within the bushes,
rumbles at our heels.

Ingeborg Bachmann

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