Re: Altarwise by Owl-Light (Stanzas I - IV)

"Linda Scheimann" <[email protected]> posted:
>
> My (poor) memory is that Bob Dylan's original surname is Zimmerman.
> 
> Linda

That's correct.

> Tremonius <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > The broily boys will gape and wonder, and consider, and assay thusly:  It
> > must be Beat because I don't understand it.  And, when will the movie be
> > out?
> >
> > Elementary, really.  Altarwise is simply a son's trip through the Zodiac,
> > twice.  That's all it is.  Once you have the key, you can pick out all the
> > star pictures represented.
> >
> > Dylan Thomas was not Beat because he really meant something. He always
> said
> > he should be taken perfectly literally.  However, as he drank himself to
> > death one year before the Howl brouhaha, many think his was the spirit
> > validating (or vitiating) the Movement.  But why was his middle name the
> > same as an old Jewish quarter on the Right Bank, now gay?
> >
> > Incidentally, before everyone jumps in here, Bobby Dylan was not named for
> > Dylan Thomas, but Marshall Dillon of Gunsmoke fame.  He changed the
> spelling
> > to render himself cooler, is all.  That way he became Beat and was allowed
> > to sit at the grave of the father.

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