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Shelter From The Storm

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Folks, we're getting to the final act of the election and there's no one better qualified to help us parse it than the Weekly Standard's Andrew Ferguson. We talk Hillary, we talk Trump and his bizarre relationship with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, the Beatles, and of course, the Nobelist himself, Bob Dylan. Also, where might we be headed from here (and by "we" we mean Ricochet)? @FatherB. asks the question in his post "In which I disparage this website and its founders" on the member feed and as promised, gets it answered on the podcast.

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Music from this week’s podcast: Shelter From The Storm by Bob Dylan

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Hosts:
Peter RobinsonRob Long
Guest:
Andrew Ferguson

Discussion (19)

  • Banned Member@JamieLockett
    @PeterRobinson Liar! It was quite the opposite actually.
  • John Russell@JohnRussell
    I had never heard the Shelter From The Storm until I watched the movie Jerry McGuire (1996) and the song was played over the closing credits. I downloaded the Bob Dylan version from iTunes and almost immediately interpreted the narrator as Jesus by virtue of the lyrics: "my crown of thorns" and "they gambled for my clothes." The problem was the identification of the antecedant of the pronoun "she." I finally formed the hypothesis that Dylan was inverting the biblical injunction for a husband to love his wife as Christ loves the church, to wit: a wife should love her husband like the church loves Christ. This interpretation seemed like a stretch so I did a little Google searching to see what other interpretations were out there. I was surprised to find that of the half dozen or so interpretations I read none even identified the narrator as Jesus. I was pleased by Rob's comment in re the dumbing down of our culture, specifically that a person who is not familiar with the Bible can not get the references in most of the literature of Western Civilization. Do any other Ricochetti share my interpretation of Shelter From The Storm?
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