Title : "Its title is a glancing reference to a Bob Dylan song called 'Visions of Johanna,' which has variously been described as a song about how one man is being pushed to the brink and about to burst emotionally."
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"Its title is a glancing reference to a Bob Dylan song called 'Visions of Johanna,' which has variously been described as a song about how one man is being pushed to the brink and about to burst emotionally."
"I am no Bob Dylan aficionado, but this strikes me as being a potent metaphor for what this country is going through."
Writes Kenneth Dickerman in "'Infinity Goes Up on Trial': A personal exploration of U.S. turmoil" (WaPo). The book he's talking about, “Infinity Goes Up on Trial,” by Alan Chin, is a collection of photographs that show the United States as a "powder keg" of "white supremacism, misogyny and the increasing gap between the have and have-nots."
A glancing reference? The title is entirely composed of a quote from the song. It's nice of Dickerman to inform readers who might be puzzled by the otherwise weird title, and as someone who'd had the words of that song seared in my brain for more than half a century, I don't mind seeing it explained for other people, but it's irritating to see it declared "a potent metaphor" for what's in this book, which doesn't seem to have the slightest connection to the what's in "Visions of Johanna."
What would it mean for infinity to go up on trial? Dylan fans have contemplated that mystery for many decades. The trial of infinity, in the song, is something that happens not on violent streets but inside the museums:
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo, "This is what salvation must be like after a while"
In museums, things are solidly and quietly preserved, so it's a place where you might naturally inquire into the value of permanence. It's the opposite of chaos breaking out on the street. But maybe the book does a better job of justifying the title. In the lyric, the disembodied thought is maybe you don't want the same thing frozen in place forever and ever. It's the question that occurs at some point to everyone: Isn't Heaven tedious?
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
You're in the museum, you're looking at the painting, and you're thinking this is awful. Infinity is guilty! The permanence is freaking me out. Come on, Mona! Let's get out of here.
See the primitive wallflower freezeDon't get me started on the wallflower freeze/frieze.
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze...
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