Armour

[poliphilo]

Personality is armour. Artists- volatile and sensitive individuals whose work involves much exposure to public gaze- often develop particularly baroque personalities. This really isn't surprising.

Consider Bob Dylan. I think, from all I've been reading lately, that he's actually quite a nice, shy, ordinary little guy at heart. It's a measure of the fragility of the man that the personality he projects is so monstrous.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

"he was a dick"

He-he- I'm sure he was.

I've know men who, I suspect, were very like the young Dylan- ambitious, insecure, bull-shitting, pretentious, scrabbling for attention- the only difference being that he had talent and they didn't.