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Jun 6Liked by Graley Herren

I'm saving this as an end of Friday treat for myself, but I couldn't resist a quick glance and my eye alighted on an extraordinary sentence, one that magically encapsulates all that Dylan is about:

"Dylan is engaged in an endless war against the narcosis of habit."

Take a well-deserved bow, Mr Herren, for that line alone, far less the rest of this engrossing series.

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Somehow, Graley, you make me care deeply about performances I never even would have known about otherwise. I go from ignorance and indolence to curiosity and enthusiasm. That, my friend, is defamiliarization.

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