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⭐ 9.0/10 (Originally written by Chris) Gave it a first listen through today. Lots to put to few words. For songs that are so humorous, introspective, observational, and catchy, I’m surprised so few if any make it to radio and popular knowledge. To accompany the songbook of  Blonde on Blonde ,  Paul Nelson  wrote an introduction stating, "The very title suggests the singularity and the duality we expect from Dylan. For Dylan's music of illusion and delusion—with the tramp as explorer and the clown as happy victim, where the greatest crimes are lifelessness and the inability to see oneself as a circus performer in the show of life—has always carried within it its own inherent tensions ... Dylan in the end truly UNDERSTANDS situations, and once one truly understands anything, there can no longer be anger, no longer be moralizing, but only humor and compassion, only pity." -wiki

⭐ 10.0/10 (Originally written by Chris) It’s been on my reading list for a long time, and I often find myself not spending too much time with fiction. Joyce has a way of comedically bringing the Greek hero to a modern context, not to transpose classic ideals of heroism onto new characters, but as a framework to display what everyday life is in all of its crud and beauty. (I’m exactly halfway through so stay tuned)