"Mystify" is a good way to phrase it, Tim. I was surpised that Warmuth came to the conclusion that it was "stealing". I think "intertextuality" is a better way to describe it - in some weird way Dylan's paying homage to a lot of the texts he loves in a rootin' tootin' way. I think with the title of "Love and Theft" he's even letting us in on the secret. A lot of the melodies from this point in time in Dylan's career are also borrowed - including almost the entire album Modern Times.
The funny thing about Chronicles is that all the "stolen" paragraphs hang together in such a freewheelin', Dylanlesque kind of way. I love rereading that book. Maybe Chronicles: Volume 2 is already in there within the layers of Chronicles: Volume 1 and that is part of the con.
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