Understand things and then be free of them
"In his memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he explains how he wanted to learn and think in a manner that recalls a telescope, which slides into itself to become smaller.
…I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library—everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right
The telescoping technique is one reason that attempts to pin a single meaning on Dylan’s songs rarely work. Most of his songs contain multitudes."
~ extract from Noted by Jillian Hess on Bob Dylan's Creative Notes
(I really like this idea of "understand(ing) things and then be(ing) free of them" I read and see and try to capture so many things that interest me it feels overwhelming... one of the outlets is trying to put them in this blog)