6/1/2023 0 Comments Bob dylan armpit tapeAnd there are obsessions, finally, that answer to no peer pressure, either in the affirmative or the negative - that obey their own orbit, oblivious to opinion. ![]() There are obsessions that make the world’s weight less lumberous - that enhance rather than diminish our vitality and verve. There are obsessions that have chosen us because they are integral to our lives - because they conform to the contours of our consciousness. Some would say there are no healthy obsessions. For the people profiled in David Kinney’s The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob, Bob Dylan is certainly a bona fide obsession, and not always of the healthy kind, either. They’d be a thing found within the space of our own personal realms, rather than a thing that determines the very shape of those realms. ![]() If we chose them, then they wouldn’t be obsessions they’d be pet projects or hobbyhorses. WE DON’T CHOOSE our obsessions our obsessions choose us.
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