i) I liked Dylan, the way he created a brilliant new style. I even gave him one of my silver "Double Elvis" paintings. Later on, though, I heard rumors that he had used it as a dart board up in the country. When I'd ask, ‘Why did he do that?’ I'd invariably get hearsay answers like ‘Listen to Like a Rolling Stone — I think you’re the ‘diplomat on the chrome horse, man.’. I didn't know exactly what they meant by that — I never listened much to the words of songs — but I got the tenor of what people were saying — that Dylan didn't like me ii) For forty-five minutes nonstop Ali raged on about prostitution on the steps of the White House, gravity, meteorites, jumping out of the window, Israel, Egypt, Zaire, South Africa, drugs, broken skulls, delusions, angel food cake, yellow hair, judgment day, Muslim morality, Jesus, boxing, Sweden, the Koran, friendship, and Elvis, relating it all to the central point that ‘man must obey the laws of God or perish!’”

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "i) I liked Dylan, the way he created a brilliant new style. I even gave him one of my silver "Double Elvis" paintings. Later on, though, I heard rumors that he had used it as a dart board up in the country. When I'd ask, ‘Why did he do that?’ I'd invariably get hearsay answers like ‘Listen to Like a Rolling Stone — I think you’re the ‘diplomat on the chrome horse, man.’. I didn't know exactly what they meant by that — I never listened much to the words of songs — but I got the tenor of what people were saying — that Dylan didn't like me ii) For forty-five minutes nonstop Ali raged on about prostitution on the steps of the White House, gravity, meteorites, jumping out of the window, Israel, Egypt, Zaire, South Africa, drugs, broken skulls, delusions, angel food cake, yellow hair, judgment day, Muslim morality, Jesus, boxing, Sweden, the Koran, friendship, and Elvis, relating it all to the central point that ‘man must obey the laws of God or perish!’”" in the context of "Andy Warhol, i) commenting on what could have happened to the painting he gave Bob Dylan, who years later regretted having exchanged it for some furniture with his manager, Albert Grossman. Upon the latter's death, his wife sold it to the New York Museum of Modern Art for US$700,000. Still, that was small change when compared to what a similar "Double Elvis" sold for at Sotheby's in 2012, namely 37.5 million dollars, exactly fifty times what Grossman's widow got. Dylan was flabbergasted when he found out and ii) From Ali's lectures entitled Friendship and The Real Cause of Man's Distress:, 1967 and as noted in Victor Bockris in his book “The Perfect Interview: The Ali-Warhol Tapes.” Gadfly, Apr. 1999" to mean that wisdom is timeless.