JOGOS DE ESPELHOS
Para o concerto que, na sexta-feira 12 de abril de 1963, apresentaria no Town Hall de Nova Iorque, Bob Dylan fez imprimir no programa um poema, “My Life In A Stolen Minute”. Aí, referindo-se à pequena cidade do Minnesota onde crescera, dizia: “Hibbing’s a good ol’ town, I ran away from it when I was 10, 12, 13, 15, 151/2, 17 an’ 18, I been caught an’ brought back all but once.” É o ponto de partida para uma longa enumeração de proezas e infortúnios — prisões por suspeita de homicídio e roubo à mão armada, viagens em comboios de mercadorias e à boleia, entre o Texas, o Mississípi, a Califórnia, o Oregon, o Novo México, o Wisconsin e a Luisiana, noites ao relento, tareias por motivo nenhum — que desemboca numa explicação do que o conduzira aquele palco: “I started doing what I’m doing, I can’t tell you the influences ’cause there’s too many to mention an’ I might leave one out, an’ that wouldn’t be fair, Woody Guthrie, sure, Big Joe Williams, yeah, it’s easy to remember those names, but what about the faces you can’t find again, what about the curbs an’ corners an’ cut-offs that drop out a sight an’ fall behind, what about the records you hear but one time, what about the coyote’s call an’ the bulldog’s bark (…) Open up yer eyes an’ ears an’ yer influenced an’ there’s nothing you can do about it.”
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