| Grateful Dead – Stella Blue Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| In a comment on another thread, someone mentioned that the name, Stella Blue, may refer to a character in Vladimir Nabokov's wonderful book, Pale Fire. I think that's entirely plausible. Robert was an erudite guy. My close friend, the late Jon McIntyre (the Dead's road manager) was also an erudite guy who appreciated my background as a philosopher and teacher at Yale, so he introduced us. At our first meeting Robert gave me a copy of his translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies--no small feat!. Later meetings often revolved around his translation and what Rilke really meant. Robert was very smart. We miss him, along with Jerry, Jon, Barlow (also a good friend) . . . | |
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