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Rogerbob, I confess I had a similar suspicion about ‘trying to show that his songs count as "literature"’, and I agree with you about the book report aspect. And, not really knowing his songs, I was left wondering how these books related to his work, but I feared that was just my ignorance.

On Melville, Dylan does hit on two of the biggest themes: the ‘mask’ of the world / being, and the problem of evil, which Melville approached from every direction and could neither solve nor leave. It may be my almost limitless admiration for Melville that’s talking above, but anyway I was surprised.

I did find this comment on All Quiet on the Western Front interesting: 'I put this book down and closed it up. I never wanted to read another war novel again, and I never did.' I couldn’t make it through that book; it disgusted me. I can't say I never read another war novel -- I've read Hemingway's more than once.

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