“The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone
Causes Galileo’s math book to get thrown
At Delilah who sits worthlessly alone
But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter”

—  Bob Dylan

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Tombstone Blues

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American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

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