![]() It is a widely used, ancient plot, based on G.E. The hero, Panda Po, gets it – because shortly before this, his father told him what the cherished Secret Ingredient of his famous noodle soup is: also Nothing. ( unrolls the paper and finds astonished that it is an empty page) Agreed, it is of the same manageable complexity as Nothing in, for example, Kung Fu Panda, when the frightening villain Tai Lung has finally acquired the Dragon Scroll and opens it to learn the Great Secret that will make him the unbeatable Dragon Warrior: Nothing is better, nothing is best then is a mild, user-friendly aphorism with the wordplay of a My Name Is Nobody or a Who’s on First, but with this recital, in this song in this place, it at least suggests some depth. ![]() First by pretending to be a philosophical change philosophers, scientists and artists have been fiddling around with the complex notion Nothing since the Fall of Man, and they usually entangle themselves – and the reader – in the paradox that the Nothing must be referred to as Something to be able to share something meaningful about it at all. … annihilating almost elegantly all shady gangster talk of the preceding verse. Take care of your health and get plenty rest The three couplets are interchangeable – all three express the dismay of the I-person and all three threaten the debtor with hostage. The antagonist is apparently in default, has delivered nothing, and the narrator now blames him, threatening with the unpleasant consequences that await the doubtful debtor. Don’t follow leaders / Watch the parking meters from “Subterranean Homesick Blues” has achieved the status of a proverb, and demonstrates, just like Abraham’s reply in “Highway 61 Revisited” ( God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son” / Abe said, “Man, you must be putting me on”) Dylan’s favoured trick, the trick of his nineteenth-century colleague Heine: contrasting stately, heavy, loaded reports with banal, rude punch lines. Later it becomes more subtle, hiding the Cheerful Note text internally. ![]() In the early years on a transcending level, by alternating his heavier, poetic or ominous songs (“Gates Of Eden”, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”) with airy and light-bringing follies like “I Shall Be Free No. Argh, like squalling cats his scrapings,ĭylan does appreciate the comic relief as well. Alone at home, the silence of the summer evening inspires Henriquez’s poetic mood and dreamy he reaches for his guitar… Quivering he touches the strings, Starting his improvising. The women of Salamanca blush when he walks by, dogs submit. For three couplets, the poet praises the beauty and elegance of his neighbour Don Henriquez. Like in “ Neben mir wohnt Don Henriquez” (1824). The German Heinrich Heine, who destroys expectations by concluding lofty, sentimental or melancholic lines with an inappropriate platitude, a dry-comic footnote or a vulgarity (the “ironic pointe”) is a grandmaster in that area. In poetry the space for the introduction and elaboration of a bumbling funny man is limited and the poet usually falls back on a punch line that can stand on its own, requiring only the preceding verse to gain a comical alleviation. Usually delivered by a not too clever secondary character, such as the porter in Macbeth, Thompson and Thompson in Tintin or Olaf the Snowman in Frozen. It is a proven, age-old stylistic device to break tension or to wake up the audience, the comic relief. And then that absurd survival advice follows, so absurd that it almost has the power of a comic relief – were it not for the fact that the scenery and circumstances are too bitter and horrible. “In order to survive, I recommend: be kind to each other and put on something warm.”įrank Ziegert of the Hamburg punk band Abwärts has just sketched an apocalyptic world view, human civilization has been eradicated by napalm and epidemics, Europe is a desolate crisis area (“Affentanz” on the punk classic Der Westen Ist Einsam, 1982).
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