Vara Silverlake — Point Blank. (New book by Bob Dylan.)

!... Point Blank (Quick Studies)

VARA SILVERLAKE

A woman of sinister beauty, has the mind of a man and the heart of a tiger. The poet's muse, queen of the night. Sometimes covers her black hair with a light brown wig.
I dreamed about her the other night, we were in the bar at the Adolphus Hotel and she was talking about my Nobel Prize, and said that "The only people pissed off about you winning that, were white people. You deserve that Nobel Prize honey, you really do. At your best, you're wonderful." I asked her if I could see her later. She wrote down her address and gave me instructions on how to get there. Then I woke up. It was one of my better dreams.

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The Adolphus Hotel — Hotel in Dallas, Texas

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WOMAN WITH CARNATIONS

She was in the bedroom trying to account for a missing sweater when the doorbell rang. It was a boy in a blue jumpsuit, his panel truck at the curb. He handed her a bouquet of carnations. She wasn't expecting such a thing. She signed for it in a daze. She mechanically took it into the kitchen, cut off the ends, found a vase. All the while she was trying to figure out who the flowers could have come from. There was no card, and the sender's name was left blank on the receipt. So a secret admirer then. But it had been a while since she'd had admirers; she had reached that plateau where women declare themselves ageless and say the hell with it. She briefly wondered if it could be the handsome salesman she'd had a few rounds with at the hotel bar the last time she went on a business trip, but she didn't remember if they exchanged names. She searched back — passing crushes, Edie's cousin, Jane's brother-in-law, the nice man at the gas station that time — but none of them seemed plausible, for a million reasons. She stared at the carnations for a long while and wondered if they were really meant for her.

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WOMAN WITH PURSE

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Bob Dylan — Point Blank (Quick Studies).

Purchase the book here

Bob Dylan — Point Blank — New series of original paintings

On view at Halcyon Gallery, London

https://www.halcyongallery.com/exhibitions/93-bob-dylan-point-blank/

“Comprising 97 original paintings, this new body of work captures Dylan’s intimate perspective on the world, blending storytelling, memory, and spontaneity. Akin to his previous series, Drawn Blank, these new works use original sketches created between 2021 and 2022 as their foundation. These drawings were then painted over with vibrant colours and expressive brushwork.”

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Face in the Mirror. 2022 - 2024. Acrylic on paper. 54.8 x 40.5 cm

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“At the hotel in Frankfurt there was a publishing convention and every room was taken, parties all night. I didn’t know there were so many book publishers in the world. I was trying to find Crystal Lake Publishing so I could congratulate them on publishing The Great God Pan, one of my favorite books. I thought they might be interested in some of my stories. Unfortunately it was too crowded and I never did find them.”

https://x.com/bobdylan/status/1849178408443339018

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Best wishes,

nightly moth.