6/20/2023 0 Comments Chronicles by Bob Dylan![]() In the back seat, I heard the plink of a ukulele string as my beautiful girlfriend moved it aside. It was raining and muddy, and Tiny Tim’s suit, made of old canvas circus posters, smelled a little musty. I remember when I myself sat with Tiny Tim in his Firebird outside a circus tent where the old football stadium used to stand on the Kenosha, Wisconsin lakefront. ![]() Among his many readings at Ray’s place, Dylan was especially impressed by Thucydides and The Peloponnesian War, but in his book he calls it The Athenian General. Before long, Dylan was newly arrived in New York City, sharing his French fries with Tiny Tim in the kitchen of the Café Wha?, and hanging out in the apartment of Ray Gooch and Chloe Kiel, a cultured burrow of old records and older books, with a mysterious steampunk workshop in the back full of tools and firearms for good measure. ![]() Lying on the burgundy flannel comforter I like to throw over our leather sofa in wintertime, I opened the book and began reading. ![]()
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