What festival was over? What kind of a fall were the boys planning' for? A windfall? Why was there a curfew? Why on earth would the gambling wheel be shut down? There must have been some kind of trouble, but apparently the dust was settling down, because the curfew had been lifted.....The streets were filling' up outside...in anticipation of the show, I guess. The showgirls were passing time, playing cards to pass the time....Lilly had two queens, and was hoping for a third...two queens is a very good hand in 5 card stud....but maybe someone else showed 2 Kings, and she needed that third....The jack of Hearts seems to be a mannerly man, as one might expect form a conman, rather nondescript, since no one paid him much mind when he entered. When Big Jim sees him, Big Jim being a man who notices details, he recognizes him.....maybe a picture on someone's shelf....(Lilly's shelf?)....Bob Dylan has said he never forgets a face. Jack's boys are drilling' through the wall to reach the bank safe, maybe that's why there is a fresh coat of paint....someone patched up their entrance point and painted it so as not to rouse suspicion or point the finger at Lilly who may have helped them by letting them start in her room. Lilly comes form a broken home...someone suggests that Rosemary is her mother...could Rosemary have left her daughter behind to marry Big Jim...is that why she is suicidal? Her guilt in abandoning Lilly who has lived a promiscuous life, and may now be a prostitute, as showgirls in the Old West often were? The house lights dim, but only Jim and Jack are left alone in the room...how is that possible, if the theatre is filled? They must be backstage in a separate room.....both intimates of cast members.....a pen knife is a tiny knife...difficult to kill a big man with....What show has a lead actor as a monk? Romeo and Juliet? The Friar is a main character.....Shakespeare was very popular in the Old West...snippets of the bard mixed with other entertainment......Rosemary rode a carriage into town...from where? Jim's house, I guess...she must have been well taken care of in order to have enough for a carriage.....Dylan's wife, sara lost her father to murder when she was 17 or 18..."She was thinking' about her father, who she very rarely saw.....was Big Jim her father? Kinda weird that someone is hanged the day after a murder...when was the trial? Is Dylan the Jack of Hearts? The non-descript guy who has a special magnetism for women, and who leads a gang of boys (the band) who wait not he ground by the riverbed and can't go anywhere without him? Did Jim get the drop on Jack when the Colt revolver clicked? Is that why Rosemary felt obligated to do Jim in? Is it all just a dream? Has Bob invaded our dreamscape again? Bob's uncle owned a movie theatre or three in hibbing, and Bob watched a lot of flicks.....our dreamscape.....hence his acuteness at re-inventing character voices in his songs.....This is his masterpiece, more clever even than Sad Eyed Lady, Desolation Row, Subterranean, My Back Pages, A hard Rain, or dozens of other candidates.....no one else has ever approached this kind of complexity...not even Joey Dugan.
What festival was over? What kind of a fall were the boys planning' for? A windfall? Why was there a curfew? Why on earth would the gambling wheel be shut down? There must have been some kind of trouble, but apparently the dust was settling down, because the curfew had been lifted.....The streets were filling' up outside...in anticipation of the show, I guess. The showgirls were passing time, playing cards to pass the time....Lilly had two queens, and was hoping for a third...two queens is a very good hand in 5 card stud....but maybe someone else showed 2 Kings, and she needed that third....The jack of Hearts seems to be a mannerly man, as one might expect form a conman, rather nondescript, since no one paid him much mind when he entered. When Big Jim sees him, Big Jim being a man who notices details, he recognizes him.....maybe a picture on someone's shelf....(Lilly's shelf?)....Bob Dylan has said he never forgets a face. Jack's boys are drilling' through the wall to reach the bank safe, maybe that's why there is a fresh coat of paint....someone patched up their entrance point and painted it so as not to rouse suspicion or point the finger at Lilly who may have helped them by letting them start in her room. Lilly comes form a broken home...someone suggests that Rosemary is her mother...could Rosemary have left her daughter behind to marry Big Jim...is that why she is suicidal? Her guilt in abandoning Lilly who has lived a promiscuous life, and may now be a prostitute, as showgirls in the Old West often were? The house lights dim, but only Jim and Jack are left alone in the room...how is that possible, if the theatre is filled? They must be backstage in a separate room.....both intimates of cast members.....a pen knife is a tiny knife...difficult to kill a big man with....What show has a lead actor as a monk? Romeo and Juliet? The Friar is a main character.....Shakespeare was very popular in the Old West...snippets of the bard mixed with other entertainment......Rosemary rode a carriage into town...from where? Jim's house, I guess...she must have been well taken care of in order to have enough for a carriage.....Dylan's wife, sara lost her father to murder when she was 17 or 18..."She was thinking' about her father, who she very rarely saw.....was Big Jim her father? Kinda weird that someone is hanged the day after a murder...when was the trial? Is Dylan the Jack of Hearts? The non-descript guy who has a special magnetism for women, and who leads a gang of boys (the band) who wait not he ground by the riverbed and can't go anywhere without him? Did Jim get the drop on Jack when the Colt revolver clicked? Is that why Rosemary felt obligated to do Jim in? Is it all just a dream? Has Bob invaded our dreamscape again? Bob's uncle owned a movie theatre or three in hibbing, and Bob watched a lot of flicks.....our dreamscape.....hence his acuteness at re-inventing character voices in his songs.....This is his masterpiece, more clever even than Sad Eyed Lady, Desolation Row, Subterranean, My Back Pages, A hard Rain, or dozens of other candidates.....no one else has ever approached this kind of complexity...not even Joey Dugan.