Didn't they say something about it being hellfire, specifically? I figure demons have to be immune to hellfire, or they'd have a pretty unsustainable turnover.
I don't know whether "God's plan" is ineffable or not, but it sure is effed.
Heh. I like to quote Douglas Adams. "Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
PS Watched Rolling Thunder Revue! I don't think I understood it though (like, the Sharon Stone, fake congressman stuff). Was Scorsese doing ~experimental documentary magical lying to make a point about...society???~ in his George Harrison doc too? I'm so confused.
I was mostly having a ton of fun watching that, but IMO, if there's any point to the outright fictitious bits (and note that several of the non-music scenes from 1975 - most notably that Serious Relationship Discussion between Dylan and Baez - are presented as documentary shots when they're actually scripted scenes from his movie Renaldo & Clara), it's that Dylan's career has always been about creating an alter ego. Even Robert Dylan, né Zimmerman, doesn't exactly know who Bob Dylan is (or was). The myth is bigger than the man. Which means you can't tell his story without a bit of fiction thrown in. Or something. Which is why I still think I'm Not There, where he's played by a half-dozen different actors including Cate Blanchett, is the most accurate portrayal of Dylan on film.
ETA: this goes a bit over the top but basically yeah.
“Truth was the last thing on my mind, and even if there was such a thing, I didn’t want it in my house. Oedipus went looking for the truth and when he found it, it ruined him. It was a cruel horror of a joke. So much for the truth. I was gonna talk out of both sides of my mouth and what you heard depended on which side you were standing. If I ever did stumble on any truth, I was gonna sit on it and keep it down.”
To quote another hero of mine, Romanian author Mircea Cartarescu: "Authenticity is just a literary device."
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I don't know whether "God's plan" is ineffable or not, but it sure is effed.
Heh. I like to quote Douglas Adams. "Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
PS Watched Rolling Thunder Revue! I don't think I understood it though (like, the Sharon Stone, fake congressman stuff). Was Scorsese doing ~experimental documentary magical lying to make a point about...society???~ in his George Harrison doc too? I'm so confused.
I was mostly having a ton of fun watching that, but IMO, if there's any point to the outright fictitious bits (and note that several of the non-music scenes from 1975 - most notably that Serious Relationship Discussion between Dylan and Baez - are presented as documentary shots when they're actually scripted scenes from his movie Renaldo & Clara), it's that Dylan's career has always been about creating an alter ego. Even Robert Dylan, né Zimmerman, doesn't exactly know who Bob Dylan is (or was). The myth is bigger than the man. Which means you can't tell his story without a bit of fiction thrown in. Or something. Which is why I still think I'm Not There, where he's played by a half-dozen different actors including Cate Blanchett, is the most accurate portrayal of Dylan on film.
ETA: this goes a bit over the top but basically yeah.
“Truth was the last thing on my mind, and even if there was such a thing, I didn’t want it in my house. Oedipus went looking for the truth and when he found it, it ruined him. It was a cruel horror of a joke. So much for the truth. I was gonna talk out of both sides of my mouth and what you heard depended on which side you were standing. If I ever did stumble on any truth, I was gonna sit on it and keep it down.”
To quote another hero of mine, Romanian author Mircea Cartarescu: "Authenticity is just a literary device."