Sunday, 8 December 2013

Expecting rain


From expectingrain.com:


'Baroness Afdera Franchetti (1931— ) is an Italian Baroness, descendant of an old Jewish Venice family that intermarried with the Rothschild family and eventually converted to Catholicism. She is most famous as the fourth wife of American actor Henry Fonda.

She was once at a lunch with Marlon Brando and Bob Dylan. Brando was baiting Dylan. "Come on, you've got all the answers, what's the meaning of life?" Dylan sat back and thought for a moment: "Love your mother and be good to your children." The answer angered Brando. "If that's the answer, how come everything you write is so abstract, so dark?" Again Dylan thought before he answered. "It's not dark. It's not dark yet. But it's getting there." The extraordinary thing about this reply was the sentence became a refrain in a Dylan song twenty years later and, secondly, that Afdera remembered it.'


Listen to Bob Dylan's Not Dark Yet here.

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