At the film's savage climax, Friend attacks Uncle Sweetheart, and is in turn attacked by Fate then Cupid - who murders him. As we watch the journalist bleed to death, it's hard not to think that Fate/Dylan is getting his revenge for a lifetime of intrusion - but when Fate is falsely accused of the murder, and taken off for sentence, we realise that things are not as straightforward as that.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/masked/andrew-motion-essay.html
The recurring message of the Wicked Messenger throughout Dylan's poetry.
And the acceptance of Fate.
There was a wicked messenger
From Eli he did come,
With a mind that multiplied
The smallest matter
http://www.lyricsdirectory.com/index/B/Bob%20Dylan/Bob%20Dylan%20-%20The%20Wicked%20Messenger%20lyrics.htm
Been treated like a farm animal
On a wild goose chase
East of the Jordan, hard as the Rock of Gibraltar,
I see the burning of the page, Curtain risin' on a new age,
See the groom still waitin' at the altar.
Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery,
Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your shyness for snobbery,
http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-grooms-still-waiting-at-the-altar-lyrics-bob-dylan.html
Louise she's all right she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face
The cloak and dagger dangles
Madams light the candles
In ceremonies of the horsemen
Even the pawn must hold a grudge
http://www.tsrocks.com/b/bob_dylan_texts/love_minus_zero.html
http://www.mp3lyrics.org/b/bob-dylan/visions-of-johanna/diff-1.htm
Do the kill-crazy bandits and the haters get you down?
Does the preachin' and the politics spin your head around?
Does the burning of the buses give your heart a pain?
Then you heard my voice a-singin' and you know my name.
Bob Dylan
http://bobdylan.com/songs/atravelin.html
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