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...LAST side is probably the best and most consistent. "All Down the Line," the opener, is the best of the rockers, and "Stop Breaking Down" is a good electric reworking of an old Robert Johnson blues. "Shine a Light" is a gospel oriented ballad with fine instrumental work from Billy Preston and Keith Richard. The final cut, "Soul Survivor," sounds like a cross between "Jigsaw Puzzle" and "Street Fighting...
...Gospel According to St. Mark opens the collection setting a kind of time-conception which operates in several other stories. Borges calls it the best in the book. It is, at least, the most carefully conceived. In dispassionate and precise language, the narrator describes events which took place on an Argentine ranch, during the last days of March...
...night, the Gutre daughter mutely offers herself to him. The following morning, after asking the student's blessing, the Gutres turn on him; they mock him, spit at him, and lead him to the yard outside, where they have erected a cross. The story ends. The teller of the Gospel, we understand, is to become the "hero" of his own story; the legend recurs, with each new telling...
LIKE poems, Borges's stories lose nearly everything in summary. Though carefully structured, The Gospel According to St. Mark offers no blatant symbolism. Each sentence conveys a sense of the ending--not an obvious foreboding, but rather an enigmatic key, to which we ultimately--at the last sentence--find a lock. Only after the story is finished, do all the elements reorganize themselves and reveal a sort of meaning...
...musicians as Van has ever had to play behind him. They blew tight rock when they had to and, more difficult, knew precisely how to play softly, and to hold the chords for Van's scatting. The choir, one-third of which was Van's wife, Janet, sang gospel backgrounds nicely all evening...