7.10.04

Gwaeth na ffans Grateful Dead

Fe ges i fy nghopi o lyfr Bob Dylan ddoe - diolch i Amazon. Ac y bore 'ma mae erthygl briliant gan Sam Leith yn y Daily Telegraph "The gospel according to Bob Dylan" (rwy'n credu bod rhaid cofrestru, ond mae hynny am ddim). Mae Leith yn gwneud sbort am ffans Dylan (fel finnau) a'r "Dylanologists": "Honestly. They're worse than Grateful Dead fans. In Ballad of a Thin Man, Dylan mocked his scholarly interpreters: "Something is happening here/ But you don't know what it is/ Do you, Mister Jones?" What did the Dylanologists do? They used the lyric as the title for an anthology of literary critical essays. " Erthygl doniol iawn, sy'n gwneud pwyntiau da am y rhaid i gadw pethau mewn perspectif.