Yet it's quite clear to me why Ricks chose the word "Visions" instead of "Vision." His style of writing throughout this 500-page book is to weave in Dylan's own words and phrases. And "visions" is a Dylan word, most notably in the song "Visions of Johanna." Using this great website, you can search for any word in Dylan's lyrics, and if you do that you'll see he never used the word "vision" to meet a structure of ideas. He only used it [the singular "vision"] once, in "Precious Angel," clearly referring to the religious apparition: "Sister, lemme tell you about a vision I saw." There are five songs in addition to "Visions of Johanna" that use the word "visions":
[I PITY THE POOR IMMIGRANT] Whose visions in the final end ...
[SOMEONE'S GOT A HOLD OF MY HEART] I keep seeing visions of you, a lily among thorns ...
[BALLAD IN PLAIN D] Countless visions of the other she'd reflect ...
[SAD-EYED LADY OF THE LOWLANDS] And your streetcar visions which you place on the grass ...
[IDIOT WIND]Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.
So Ricks had to make it "Visions" and must suffer for his sin of excessive devotion to Dylan by having his book title misinvoked.
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Chris Ricks just sent a nice swatch of a monologued interview:
The words are just as important as
the music. There would be no music without the words"; "The words and
the music, I can hear the sound of what I want to say"; "The whole
total sound of the words, what's really going down is
One imagines further inchoate explications, Dylan trying to describe to the interviewer the sound of the knell the muse leaves resonating on the ancient empty beach the surf lapping somewhat like the comedian as the letter C.
Visions are alright, and BD was upfront, as people used to say, about it. That was the ethic: it was alright if you said what you were doing.
It's a lot like practicing law, or any contemplative art.
There is a new book this week in the reviews, a compendium of commentaries mosaicked together to paint a portrait of the musician; in case you would like to read a review of that new book, there.
Dylan's word searchengine must be a database; it shows lots of potential.
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