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Prof. Thomas looks forward to the show, and notes that Dylan??s performance, similar to the oral tradition of Homeric poetry, is just as significant as his music and lyrics...
...Between Dylan??s seemingly ubiquitous presence and what Prof. Thomas calls the “never ending tour,” his appearance in a Victoria Secret commercial and one of his song’s close lyrical resemblance to passages from a Japanese Yakuza novel, the Troubadour has sparked some heated controversy...
...only has Dylan??s image been questioned in recent years, but his musical integrity and lyrical honesty have also come under scrutiny. Songs off of his new album such as “Floater” and “Po’ Boy” seem to take lines almost verbatim from the English translation of Junachi Saga’s Confessions of a Yakuza...
This borrowing of traditions and allusion even goes back to ancient Roman poetry. Prof. Thomas points out the striking similarities between a verse in Dylan??s “Lonesome Bay Blues” and a passage in the English translation of Virgil’s Aenied...
Thomas offers his own explanation for Dylan??s sometimes incomprehensible motives and notes that society doesn’t always understand the means to his ends...