Word: written
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This text was written by several members of the Student-Faculty Advisory Council in preparation for the Faculty's meeting today...
This is Vladimir Nabokov's second novel, written and published in Russian in 1928, when he was a 28-year-old émigré living in Berlin. It was recently roughed into English by Nabokov's son Dmitri, then tightened and buffed to a cold brilliance by the author. "Of all my novels," says Nabokov, "this bright brute is the gayest. Expatriation, destitution, nostalgia had no effect on its elaborate and rapturous composition...
...Sure, try asking Robert Lowell if he has a message, he won't want to talk to you. Bob Dylan's message (what he says, sings, writes) isn't any one particular idea. That is to say: sometimes he's saying man's so sinister that he's even written it into his bible, The Bible; and sometimes Dylan's talking civil rights, or sometimes he's talking about the way some people (like him) are living...
Take for example Visions of Johanna, one of the half dozen best songs Dylan has ever written. Listen to it. Dylan is lying in bed with his girl, named Louise, wondering about Johanna, salvation (life after death), and life before death. He constantly abstracts himself into the third person, first as Louise's "lover," then as a little boy. He sings: "Now a little boy lost. He takes himself so seriously. He brags of his misery. He likes to live dangerously. And when bringing her name up, he speaks of a farewell kiss to me. He's sure...
Another thing that Country Joe told us was that he didn't really like the way Dylan had copped out on politics, including the anti-war scene. But Dylan's message isn't with organizations. His message reaches its most advanced state of development in three songs he's written recently. One's in the middle of the first side of the new album; the other two he wrote for a couple of other groups...