Three Things from Edmonton podcast - Episode 83: Bob, You Angelou You, Write Like This
Happy end of the week, y’al! I collect sentences. There, I admitted it. Here are three really good ones that came into or back into my life this week as reading summer rolls on. Three Things, episode 83: 1. Dylan Here’s the line: Something there is about you that strikes a match in me. It’s the opening line from "Something There Is About You," which is song #5 on Side 1 of Dylan’s Planet Waves album. (Parenthetically, it’s the album that features as the last song on Side 1 and the first song on Side 2 the same song, "Forever Young," as if to make clear to the listener back in 1974 that Dylan would himself stay young by re-birthing different versions of his songs.) (Again, parenthetically, the same song with the line that I’ll get right back to contains a lovely, autobiographical reference to the rainy days a young Robert Zimmerman spent tramping around the hills of old ...