Wednesday, 29 March 2006

Quote of the day

Now the preacher looked so baffled
When I asked him why he dressed
With twenty pounds of headlines
Stapled to his chest

—Bob Dylan, “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (1966)
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousThursday, March 30, 2006 5:00:00 am

    This is obviously Dylan's take on Barth's advice to the preacher: the newspaper on one boob and the Bible on the other.

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