The 18th installment

of Talkin’ Bob Dylan, is entitled,“'May I see your references?' Part II: Desolation

Row". in the last episode we made the observation that Bob Dylan likes to refer in his songs to previously

established characters, literary, historical and mythological. This week we dive into

his

most extreme

example and posit that

the song is an apocalyptic, epic poem in which Desolation Row is perhaps an enlightened state of mind rather than a geographical place.