How many must a man

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How many roads must a man walk down? Before you can call him a man, that is. Some have tried to answer it, however. By his reasoning, the average boy should aim to walk 15, steps a day it is 12, steps for girls, apparently.

Thus, between the age of five and eighteen, when he legally becomes a man, a boy should have walked 71,, steps. This is rather side-stepping the matter, and in any case Bob Dylan, after some six decades of reflection, has come up with the answer himself. It is five. Or possibly so. A man, looking not unlike the young Dylan, stands at a crossroads, where a sign points in five directions: Wyoming, Iowa, Kansas, Nevada, Montana.

That Nobel prize was well won. Mondo Scripto is one of the naffest things to which Dylan has lent his name. The amateurishness of the results, combined with the blatant mercantilism, make you wince there are signed prints for sale, of course. Whatever next? As the promotional blurb informs us:. Years in the making, the inaugural trilogy of expressions includes a Tennessee Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Double Barrel Whiskey and Straight Rye Whiskey finished in oak barrels from Vosges, France, air-dried for 3 years.

I also smelled sandalwood, leather and linseed oil. This is chiefly because of this promotional photograph, in which Dylan sits in a leather chair, elegantly attired, fine book in one hand, fine whiskey in the other, and a fine set of books on display behind.

Frustratingly, the image is not quite sharp enough to make out many of the titles, but I have spotted W. There are lines of uniformly bound encyclopedias. There are few paperbacks. What the man himself is reading is, alas, not revealed.

See if you can detect more titles than me — the sharpest version of the image is at www. But everyone, no matter what the circumstances, looks just that little bit better for having books on shelves lined up behind them when they are photographed. Finally, there is the real thing. Released today is More Blood, More Tracks , fourteenth in the official Bootleg series, whose discs if you count the individual discs in boxed sets must now outnumber the studio albums he has produced.

Dylan the first time round was only one part of the evolving story. So we have alternative history, the masterpiece that would have been had it not been supplanted by a version still greater.

David Zimmerman was probably right in telling his brother to start again on some of the songs. Rather the word is private. The version of the album that finally reached the public spoke to many through a richer variety of musical textures, more obviously varied in approach.