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Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
Cash Tributes
Rolling Stone has some terrific tributes to Johnny Cash. Dylan's is fantastic, totally devoid of the strange cadences and tropes that often populate his prose. He's speaking right from the heart.
Truly he is what the land and country is all about, the heart and soul of it personified and what it means to be here; and he said it all in plain English. I think we can have recollections of him, but we can't define him any more than we can define a fountain of truth, light and beauty. If we want to know what it means to be mortal, we need look no further than the Man in Black. Blessed with a profound imagination, he used the gift to express all the various lost causes of the human soul. This is a miraculous and humbling thing. Listen to him, and he always brings you to your senses. He rises high above all, and he'll never die or be forgotten, even by persons not born yet -- especially those persons -- and that is forever.
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© Copyright 2004 Steve Michel.
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