What an auld, strange syne it's been...


 


Just one of those weird quasi-correspondences the universe throws up, that deserves to get remembered, if only by me.

I am not, repeat not, going to tell you why I was looking at Bob Dylan's astrological chart.* However, I was struck by the accompanying description, in which he is "called the Robert Burns of the pop revolution." Now, in all my born days, I would never, ever have thought to compare Dylan to Burns: not just inappropriate, but downright bizarre. ("Pop revolution"?)

Only a couple of days later, I'm doing a little look up on the Grateful Dead,** and I go to the Wikipedia entry on Robert Hunter , perhaps their best-known lyricist (unless you're talking about John Perry Barlow , but he's famous for other reasons.)

Robert Hunter's real name?

Robert Burns.


*I will admit that I used to do women's charts in the 70's in order to get them to go to bed with me. I will also tell you that it never worked.

**nope. uh-uh. Forget about it.

Posted: Monday - June 26, 2006 at 11:02 PM        

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