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- Subject: Re: Chimes interpretation
- Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc.
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:15:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.141553.25838@mips2.ma30.bull.com>
- References: <1993Jan25.205331.16680@cs.brown.edu>
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- jab@cs.brown.edu (James M. Borger) writes:
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- >Regarding Bob singing 'Chimes' in DC...
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- >I had always interpreted the last few lines (...for every hungup person in the
- >whole wide universe...) of the song as saying something along the lines of
- >helping people out is great, but we shouldn't get carried away. Based on this
- >interpretation I think it's interesting that Dylan chose to sing it for Clinton.
- >Any thoughts?
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- >Jim Borger
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- I see this as another example of Dylan's "liberal" thinking. He has a vision of
- "every hungup person" being "freed" from the bonds of those hangups.
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- John B
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