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I contain multitudes

In his second song since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bob Dylan lists a catalogue of influences, including Edgar Allen Poe, William Blake, Beethoven, and Chopin. The title of the song, in which the poet, having finally acknowledged that his self is the sum total of all that has influenced it, writes:

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Michael North is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at UCLA. North is the author of many books, including What Is the Present? and Novelty: A History of the New. He has received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship,

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