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:“ It was right around that time when a certain black book fell from heaven into my hands and changed my life.

An amazing book — full of crazy characters, of sadness and love, of desperation and revolution, of insight and morality.

It was political and poetical, religious and surreptitious.

It was a biography of the world and it was pure fiction.

I was captivated by it, motivated by it, undressed, unblest, and depressed by it.

All that summer, I ’ d been teaching myself primitive piano, had fancied myself a bluesy, outraged rock star or an actor maybe, or anyone with an audience, anyone with a voice.

Then on this one particular hot, dry October afternoon, my older brother left for college and left behind his Bob Dylan Songbook.