It's a King o' Kings Thing
Directing your attention during this holy week season to the writing of Gordon A. Thomas. Gordon recently scribed a piece that looks at the spectacle that the spirit can sometimes be heir to. That is: Bible stories in the hands of Mr. Cecil B. DeMille.
Gordon and I go back a long way .. to the concrete pastures of Boston University in 1974. He is a great painter, photographer, librarian, pianist, recanter, and writer-critic. Back in 1977 or so he and I co-penned ''Wheels on Fire: A Mnemonic Approach to Dylanology,'' that, while rejeted by the Jounral of Dylanology, really set the tone for subsequent Dylan studies.
[The mistake we made was to trace Dylan's inspiring source to Verdi, while the more hip Greil Marcus was able [in The Basement Tapes] to trace it to the Carter Family] [-gotta put that up on this site one of these one of these.] Gordon continues to ponder the unponderable as his paean to DeMille demonstrates. Read it and weep.
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