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Hope Moves in Shadowy and Offbeat Places: Bob Dylan, Death, and the Creative Spirit

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Or if you like basketball or dancing, like to move to the beat, listen to Dylan singing "Hurricane," a long narrative song about the framing of the boxer Ruben "Hurricane" Carter. It will get your blood flowing, your passions riled, and your body moving. It's perfect for practicing all the dribbling tricks Pistol Pete performed. I thought of using it at the Senior Olympics, but the beat seemed a little too rapid and excitable for the over-fifty AARP crowd. The shirts were sending an undertaking message that I didn't want made real. Hope is one thing, but traveling too fast is another. Anyway, one of my teammates was in swift pursuit of a woman there whom he described as a twin of his ideal woman -- Pamela Anderson. He didn't need any more excitement.

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