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Around the black lightning planet.

"Dylan : Joni Mitchell had an album out called 'Blue'. And it affected me, I couldn't get it out of my head. And it just stayed in my head and when I wrote that song I wondered, what's that mean ? And then I figured that it was just there, and I guess that's what happened, y'know.

Craig : It's not the same 'blue' as in 'it's all over now baby blue' ?

Dylan : No, no. That's a different blue." --1978 interview

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"Since my heart must bear its weight of grief
And feel the burning fire now of pleasure,
And fall from virtue to so base a measure,
I’ll tell how I’ve lost all that had value.
And how my spirits wither in the leaf,
How heart knows little life and greater war;
And if Death did not delight me more,
How I’d make Love weep for pity too.

But now the time of folly is upon me,
I change from out my fixed opinion
Into the contrary condition,
So that I show not how I am aggrieved:
There where I am deceived,
How through my heart a lover passed,
And in her passing all I had was lost." --via ["Poi che di doglia cor conven ch’i’ porti"]

Tangled Up in Blue. Then i started wondering again about that "Italian poet" (when he sang it in Ft Worth around 1980, i almost jumped out of my skin that he added "or maybe it was Charles Baudelaire"). One discussion with lots of data. I myself don't believe it was Petrarch, but it could have been Cavalcanti. It's true that D. himself was not averse to obscurantism, but there's no good reason to be so oblique--as if he called Shakespeare "an Elizbethan playwright" (but it might make sense for John Webster)...