This is the well-deserved winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature's latest book. One quote: “Ultimately, money doesn’t matter. Nor do the things it can buy. Because no matter how many chairs you have, you only have one a$$.”

I happen to agree. Most big lottery winners wind up much later saying it would have been better if they had never won that huge pile of free underserved loot. 

https://www.insidehook.com/article/music/bob-dylan-new-book-best-lines

 

 

 

Edited November 8, 20223 yr by Fielder

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind 

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
Yeah and the all-night girls whisper of escapades on the "D" train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
She's a delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place

Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what 
salvation must be like after a while
Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeez, I can't find my knees"
How can I explain
It's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn

The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin', "Name me someone not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man?"
As she, herself, prepares for him
And Madonna, she still hasn't showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape off the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's returned which was owed
On the back of a fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain

Thanks for this! Huge fan of Dylan for the last 40 years here.

Have you ever seen anyone with piles of money ever just giving it all away because they were miserable? The poor don't seem to understand how lucky they are to not have this problem.

 

Bill W

I never play the lottery because I don't want to turn my life miserable if I were to win.  Although if I were to become heir to a large fortune I think I would give most of it to charity.

I thankful we have just enough to keep us well fed and sheltered and have a couple of luxuries.  We don't need more.  

Having said that who knows what the future holds.

Noel

1 hour ago, birdguy said:

I never play the lottery because I don't want to turn my life miserable if I were to win.  Although if I were to become heir to a large fortune I think I would give most of it to charity.

I thankful we have just enough to keep us well fed and sheltered and have a couple of luxuries.  We don't need more.  

Having said that who knows what the future holds.

Noel

I agree with you  Noel. Having come from an economically challenged background I would probably keep enough for a Porsche and give the rest to my Grand daughters. At my age I don't need many more thrills. I got myself through college with an accounting degre and was blessed to have a good career. We sre comfortable now and just pray for good health.

Bill W

I wouldn't mind having a "small fortune" come to me, as I'd truly enjoy travelling again. It's been over fifty years since I last lived abroad, and just under twenty years since performing several concerts in Italy, my favorite venue having performed for the late Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. I'd leave any remaining money evenly divided between Saint Jude's Children's Hospital and Shriner's Children's Hospital.