jmc wrote:
"christopher rollason" <rollason> wrote in message news:bepfoo$si4$1@aphrodite.grec.isp.9tel.net...
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Reading Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, I noticed the following
borrowing.
From Dylan's Summer Days: "She's looking into my eyes, she's holding my
hand. She says you can't repeat the past. I say, You can't repeat the
past?
What do you mean you can't? Of course you can!" From Gatsby: "I wouldn't
ask
too much of her. You can't repeat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he
cried. "Why of course you can!" Dylan's use of this exchange bursts apart
the rhythm of his lyric, signalling he is cutting and pasting.
Edward Fox
London
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Could this be the actor Edward Fox, star of Day of the Jackal?
His last point is silly - Dylan has always played around with scansion and varied the length of his lines. In Summer Days, it is what gives the song
its breathtaking carminative energy (especially live).
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