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 Posted by Johannes on 09/30/05 12:36 
Chris Rockcliffe wrote: 
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> Johannes30/9/05 11:44 AM 
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> > Honest Aryan wrote: 
> >> 
> >> williemeikle wrote: 
> >> 
> >>> Dylan had a motorbike crash in '66 and was an invalid or near invalid 
> >>> for most of the vietnam years, but hey, never let the facts get in the 
> >>> way of a story, right? 
> >> 
> >>     More enlightenment! 
> >>     Amazingly, I'd never connected 
> >> those two things. 
> >>     Note to self: I *MUST* be more cynical. 
> > 
> > Your obsession with this old musician is amazing. 
>  
> Amazing?... not really.  The *Honest Aryan* says to me he is likely a nasty 
> hateful fascist, racist, anti-semitic, anti liberal boor - hardly likely to 
> admire Mr Zimmerman, his politics or his songs.  Such people have a 
> deliberate agenda to try and discredit the objects of their hate. 
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> CR 
 
But I don't see Dylan as an obvious target for his hate. As I understand it, 
Dylan was clever enough to keep out of associations that might try to exploit 
him. He wrote with a free spirit without thinking of fear or favours, usually 
on the side of the underdog, this was quite a nice trait.
 
  
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