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Bob Dylan is a modern-day Odysseus

9 December 2017

9:00 AM

9 December 2017

9:00 AM

‘There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.’ Lord Henry Wotton said that. It is always better to read Bob Dylan than to read about him. I said that.

Two new books by Dylan, and two about him, prove my point.

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