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Didn’t you have to look up ‘proleptic’? I certainly did.

I reviewed ‘Street-Legal’ for Rolling Stone. I hated it and tried to find the words to say so. Jann Wenner felt I was on the wrong path and asked me about writing his own review. I thought it was a great idea—and edited the piece. But it was only Wilfrid Mellers’s book on Dylan that sent me back to it, for what he wrote about ‘Senor.’ He was right: that’s a deep and churning song. I love the reference to the Johnson County War. But it’s the only song there I wil ever need to hear again.

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Yes Greil, I did have to look up "proleptic," as well as "aproleptic irony"; thought I emailed you the results. I like "Señor" too; I'm sorry I didn't give it any attention here. I had almost a thousand words of overmatter about the Alpha Band, fell into a deep rabbit hole, had to crawl out that window or write about something else.

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