But words come to me nevertheless, Ed! This reminds me of an interview with Bob Dylan in which the interviewer asks him who's better, Woody Guthrie or Hank Williams. After all, Williams wrote all those wonderful love songs. Well, Dylan says (or something to this effect), it's an insult to call Wiliams's songs love songs; love songs, Dylan says, come from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which is obvious because love can be used for either end. Williams's songs, he says, come from the Tree of Life—the implication being they are beyond good and evil. The interview was from the early '90s, and I think Dylan must have been studying Kabbalah at the time, yes?
But words come to me nevertheless, Ed! This reminds me of an interview with Bob Dylan in which the interviewer asks him who's better, Woody Guthrie or Hank Williams. After all, Williams wrote all those wonderful love songs. Well, Dylan says (or something to this effect), it's an insult to call Wiliams's songs love songs; love songs, Dylan says, come from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which is obvious because love can be used for either end. Williams's songs, he says, come from the Tree of Life—the implication being they are beyond good and evil. The interview was from the early '90s, and I think Dylan must have been studying Kabbalah at the time, yes?
ReplyDeleteAnd you?