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.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There was some of that in the Scorsese film. He "borrowed" a whole lot of records from some guy and the guy went round to put the fear of God into him and they had this long weird conversation that got so interesting that the guy kept forgetting that he was trying to terrorize Dylan and according to a witness it was really funny to watch.