{"id":55428,"date":"2017-06-07T06:46:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T06:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55428"},"modified":"2017-06-07T06:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T06:46:49","slug":"if-your-memory-serves-you-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55428","title":{"rendered":"If your memory serves you well.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Muslim travel ban DoubleQuoted with Japanese internment camps, history rhyming, Ginsberg on Dylan&#8217;s national rhyme ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna O Law<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Immigration-Battle-American-Courts\/dp\/1107617936\">The Immigration Battle in American Courts<\/a>, Cambridge, 2014) made the connection:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Poll: Half of voters support Trump travel ban <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QrSShbyXSq\">https:\/\/t.co\/QrSShbyXSq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fokenio2cd\">pic.twitter.com\/Fokenio2cd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/872207988257202177\">June 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In 1942, 63% of public wanted to send interned Japanese nationals &amp; Americans &quot;back to Japan&quot;. 40% of public disapproved of Brown v Board. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3XbW7vGFnG\">https:\/\/t.co\/3XbW7vGFnG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anna O. Law (@UnlawfulEntries) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnlawfulEntries\/status\/872213796772864009\">June 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>What kind of rhyme is that anyway, <strong>Mister History<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Is it one like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Idiot wind, blowing everytime you move your jaw,<br \/>\nFrom the Grand Coulee Dam to the Mardi Gras.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/alldylan.com\/bob-dylans-best-songs-idiot-wind-10\/\">first version the current Nobel Laureate in Literature tried out  &#8212; or this, definitive one<\/a>? &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,<br \/>\nFrom the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The question interests me because there&#8217;s a back-level where the rhyme is in the concept, not the sound of the words as pronounced by poet or listener, reader &#8212; as with the rhyme <strong>womb \/ tomb<\/strong>, where before-birth and after-death meet both soncally and conceptually, making life freshly worthwhile as only the mechanics of poetry can.<\/p>\n<p>Ginsberg explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christopher Ricks, who has also penned books about T. S. Eliot and John Keats, argues that Dylan\u2019s lyrics not only qualify as poetry, but that Dylan is among the finest poets of all time, on the same level as Milton, Keats, and Tennyson. He points to Dylan\u2019s mastery of rhymes that are often startling and perfectly judged. For example, this pairing from \u201cIdiot Wind,&#8221; released in 1975:<\/p>\n<p>Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,<br \/>\nFrom the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol<\/p>\n<p>The metaphorical relation between the head and the head of state, both of them two big domes, and the \u201cidiot wind\u201d blowing out of Washington, D.C., from the mouths of politicians, made this particular lyric the \u201cgreat disillusioned national rhyme,&#8221; according to Allen Ginsberg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ginsberg&#8217;s formidable liking for this rhyme is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/on-the-road-with-bob-dylan-joan-baez-and-the-rolling-thunder-revue-19760115\">part of what got him invited<\/a> to Dylan&#8217;s Rolling thunder Review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ginsberg&#8217;s tribute to that rhyme is one of the reasons he is here with Bob and Joan and the rest of the merry motley. It was, says Allen, &#8220;one of the little sparks of intelligence that passed between Bob and me and that led him to invite me on the tour.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I caught the <strong>rolling thunder<\/strong> in Fort Collins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w8DylAtPF0I?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Ah yes.<\/p>\n<p>And <strong>If your memory serves you well<\/strong> is, as I recall via Google, Dylan&#8217;s top of the hat to <strong>Rimbaud<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>A Season in Hell<\/strong>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/abardel.free.fr\/tout_rimbaud\/une_saison_en_enfer.htm\">opens with the words<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie \u00e9tait un festin o\u00f9 s&#8217;ouvraient tous les c\u0153urs, o\u00f9 tous les vins coulaient.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>This Wheel&#8217;s On Fire<\/strong>, lyrics by that Nobel fellow, <strong>Rick Danko<\/strong> and the Band:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-mlzUHxNMV8?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Memory, pattern, association, analogy, history, learning.<\/p>\n<p>And Dylan on how literature works on you a similar wonder &#8212; in his recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/2016\/dylan-lecture.html\">Nobel speech<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6TlcPRlau2Q?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Music to my ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Muslim travel ban DoubleQuoted with Japanese internment camps, history rhyming, Ginsberg on Dylan&#8217;s national rhyme ] . Anna O Law (The Immigration Battle in American Courts, Cambridge, 2014) made the connection: Poll: Half of voters support Trump travel ban https:\/\/t.co\/QrSShbyXSq pic.twitter.com\/Fokenio2cd &mdash; The Hill (@thehill) June 6, 2017 In 1942, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1417,526,1314,627,1151,52,51,753,154,784,480,1490,741,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-dylan","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-doublequotes","category-doubletweets","category-france","category-history","category-islam","category-japan","category-memory","category-music","category-nobel","category-poetry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55428"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55457,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55428\/revisions\/55457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}