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US Highway 9 is a popular highway in the Northeastern part of the United States.
Here’s one of the US 9 signs in Freehold, NJ, where Bruce spent his childhood and young adulthood.
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Stockton’s Wing is a popular swimming hole in Farview, New Jersey.
This line also inspired the name of an Irish band formed in 1977 called Stockton’s Wing.
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It sparkles before she speaks
She wears an Egyptian ring
It sparkles before she speaks Bob Dylan – She Belongs to Me
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She’s a classy girl that dresses well. Her Egyptian ring is of particular attraction because is shimmers on her hand. Evidently, she is a collector of hypnotic items, hence a walking antique.
The phrase “you’re a walking antique” is a clever follow-up to “she’s a hypnotist collector” for she will hypnotize you and make you hers, i.e., she will collect you as she does any other antique. Again, this puts the lie to the title of the song–clearly it should be “I Belong to Her”.
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Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang.
Dylan is saying that he might look like the one taking aim (Robert Ford) but he feels like the one getting shot in the back (Jesse James)–perhaps as a result of the way he is picked apart by former “fans” and the music press.
Or perhaps it is the miscegenist narrator speaking here: He is breaking the law, which means he looks like the aggressor–but in reality, he is the victim of an unjust law.
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There is a popular misinterpretation that “Like a Rolling Stone” was written about Bob Dylan’s relationship with the mentally unstable heiress, model, and Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick.
Sedgwick allegedly had a brief fling with Dylan (Dylan has routinely denied this), and was crushed when Dylan married Sara Lownds in November 1965.
However, “Rolling Stone” was written before Sedgwick suffered her collapse (brought on by a drug addiction and mental illness). The apparent references to her seem to be coincidental. (It’s also a bit of an inapt characterization: Edie was slumming for kicks, whereas the “you” in this song has fallen on hard times due to her world collapsing).
Dylan biographer Michael Gray wrote that Sedgwick had no connection with “Like a Rolling Stone,” but instead was an inspiration for multiple songs on the Dylan album Blonde on Blonde, such as “Just Like a Woman” and “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat.”
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Crêpe Suzette is a French dessert consisting of a crêpe with beurre Suzette, a sauce of caramelized sugar and butter, tangerine or orange juice, zest, and Grand Marnier or orange Curaçao liqueur on top, served flambé.
Quite a fancy order for a homeless man.
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The bowline is an ancient and simple knot used to form a fixed loop at the end of a rope. It has the virtues of being both easy to tie and untie. The bowline is sometimes referred as King of the knots because of its importance.
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