**Letter to Georges Izambard; Charleville, 13 May 1871 'Je est un autre,]' “which translates into ‘I is someone else.’ When I read those words the bells went off. It made perfect sense. I wished someone would have mentioned that to me earlier.”" - Meaning and context.">
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[Ref Rimbaud line**Letter to Georges Izambard; Charleville, 13 May 1871 'Je est un autre,]' “which translates into ‘I is someone else.’ When I read those words the bells went off. It made perfect sense. I wished someone would have mentioned that to me earlier.”

— Bob Dylan

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[Ref Rimbaud line**Letter to Georges Izambard; Charleville, 13 May 1871 'Je est un autre,]' “which translates into ‘I is someone else.’ When I read those words the bells went off. It made perfect sense. I wished someone would have mentioned that to me earlier.”" in the context of "p288" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bob Dylan

About Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016 Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".