Fleshing Out

Being a musician, Dylan naturally has a lot of opinions on what makes a good song, what makes a clever idea, and what makes a multidimensional person. His phraseology is always intriguing in this respect: an powerful entity is biologically described. "...yet he's the stuff of real flesh and blood," is how Dylan crystallizes Pretty Boy Floyd (39). The more profound an idea is, the more real it becomes. Though Dylan loves to think and philosophize, he doesn't fall into the trap of viewing the physical as useless; on the contrary, the closer an idea comes to truth, the more human it becomes. It's as though Dylan's litmus test for truth is whether or not and idea can be personified. "LPs were like the force of gravity" (34). The more palpable something becomes, the more Dylan loves it. Perhaps this lingers behind his fascination with social justice and protest.