Queen Mary

Michael Neve

  • A Darker Shade of Pale: A Backdrop to Bob Dylan by Wilfrid Mellers
    Faber, 255 pp, £6.95, November 1984, ISBN 0 571 13345 2
  • Dylan by Jonathan Cott
    Vermilion/Hutchinson, 244 pp, £20.00, October 1984, ISBN 0 09 158750 6

At certain moments, which, given there is less and less time to think, may be fleeting, one question surely crosses the mind of most adult readers: do we actually need to hear from professors? Do we, for example, need professors of music to tell us about the songs of the Beatles, or professors of philosophy to tell us that philosophy is dead, or professors of linguistics to tell us about children’s speech, or professors of film to tell us how the sign system is working in Psycho? Aren’t there moments when we are all liable to turn into Uncle Vanya, and start wondering where we left that revolver?

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