I'm not sure I could identify ten Dylan songs I really liked. "The Hurricane" is a great song, but it's also factually untrue in key parts, which is sad because it shows Dylan is perfectly willing to fudge to get a good story where none exists. Not that this is necessarily the case here ... a rich SOB hitting a bartender with a cane looks like an open-and-shut case, but without learning anything more (i.e. was the cause of her death a direct result of the caning, which seems somewhat likely) it's hard to know whether Zantzinger got off lightly or not.
As a coda to this, while we were in Arkansas, I was rummaging around in some of my in-laws' old scrapbooks, and one of the things I found was a 1949 traffic ticket in which my father-in-law was involved in a fatality as a very young man (still in his late teens). The victim was an older black man, a preacher; reportedly drunk at the time, early one morning (the ticket had a time of 7:00 AM or so) he walked out into street, into the side of my father-in-law's car, and was killed. The newspaper clippings read, "Negro killed in traffic accident" and the like, as though the victim's race were relevant to the story. Both my wife and I were wondering whether any of the facts of that case were fudged to make it go away.
Although I'm not sure if now is the time for our tears.
I don't have that album; I'll have to find it somewhere.
Much appreciated, Bob.
Also, I now have street cred thanks to those deleted posts.
Bob, I was just wondering if there was a Toaster problem. You've cleared that up nicely.
As a coda to this, while we were in Arkansas, I was rummaging around in some of my in-laws' old scrapbooks, and one of the things I found was a 1949 traffic ticket in which my father-in-law was involved in a fatality as a very young man (still in his late teens). The victim was an older black man, a preacher; reportedly drunk at the time, early one morning (the ticket had a time of 7:00 AM or so) he walked out into street, into the side of my father-in-law's car, and was killed. The newspaper clippings read, "Negro killed in traffic accident" and the like, as though the victim's race were relevant to the story. Both my wife and I were wondering whether any of the facts of that case were fudged to make it go away.
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