'captain's tower'
00 '...a song of mine that places T.S.Elliot and Ezra Pound fighting in a CAPTAIN'S TOWER' 02 br
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0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 00 As you probably know, this is a line from a song by Bob Dylan called 'Desolation Row'. S. Eliot 02 br 00 Fighting in the captain's tower 02 br 02 font 01 font 00 While calypso singers laugh at them 02 br 00 And fishermen hold flowers 02 br 00 Between the windows of the sea 02 br 00 Where lovely mermaids flow 02 br 00 And nobody has to think too much 02 br 00 About Desolation Row 02 br 02 font 02 br 02 br 00 I found this interpretation at 01 i 01 a 01 font 05 0 00 02 font 02 br 02 br 01 font 01 i 00 I have always looked at the lines about Pound and Eliot (in as much as I spend so much time talking about them) as referring to two genius insane poets, each with his own apocalyptic vision, fighting over whose vision is the truth- 01 del 00 over who should take his rightful place in the captain's tower (unless of course this is the tower of banishment, or maybe, as they are literary figures, th Tower of Babel 02 del 00 -but anyhow they have convinced themselves it is the captain's tower) and be the leader of Desolation Row.
- 0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 00 As you probably know, this is a line from a song by Bob Dylan called 'Desolation Row'.
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- Eliot 02 br 00 Fighting in the captain's tower 02 br 02 font 01 font 00 While calypso singers laugh at them 02 br 00 And fishermen hold flowers 02 br 00 Between the windows of the sea 02 br 00 Where lovely mermaids flow 02 br 00 And nobody has to think too much 02 br 00 About Desolation Row 02 br 02 font 02 br 02 br 00 I found this interpretation at 01 i 01 a 01 font 05 0 00 02 font 02 br 02 br 01 font 01 i 00 I have always looked at the lines about Pound and Eliot (in as much as I spend so much time talking about them) as referring to two genius insane poets, each with his own apocalyptic vision, fighting over whose vision is the truth- 01 del 00 over who should take his rightful place in the captain's tower (unless of course this is the tower of banishment, or maybe, as they are literary figures, th Tower of Babel 02 del 00 -but anyhow they have convinced themselves it is the captain's tower) and be the leader of Desolation Row.
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