Can We Allow Bob Dylan to Be Himself?

Can We Allow Bob Dylan to Be Himself?

At the start of Martin Scorsese’s 2019 documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story—a film whose opening title card reads conjuring the rolling thunder revue—magician Georges Méliès drapes a blanket over a woman seated on a chair. He pulls the blanket off, and she is no longer there. Then he puts the blanket back on the chair, pulls it off again, and presto, she has reappeared.The verb “conjure” means to “call upon (a spirit or ghost) to…