Seeking Tensionhead's answers to Bob Dylan's questions
Posted by Abílio Silveira on January 25th, 2010 | 8 comments | 435 views
Some days ago, I posted an innocent picture with a poetic caption: Counting the pixels on the pavement.
A couple of days later, I was surprised by Tensionhead's pragmatic interpretation of my original picture.
He actually counted the tiles! 6771, for the record.
I said to myself: A guy who has the capacity to give an answer to such a difficult problem is the right man to solve the questions that have been tormeting the world over the last 50 years after the construction of the Berlin wall and the Vietnam war.
In 1962, Bob Dylan wrote a ballad, Blowin' in the Wind, raising 9 essential questions remaining to be answered 48 years later.
1. How many roads must a man walk down,
Before you call him a man? 2. How many seas must a white dove sail,
Before she sleeps in the sand? 3. How many times must cannonballs fly,
Before they're forever banned? 4. How many years can a mountain exist,
Before it's washed to the seas 5. How many years can some people exist,
Before they're allowed to be free? 6. How many times can a man turn his head,
Pretend that he just doesn't see? 7. Yes and how many times must a man look up,
Before he can see the sky? 8. Yes and how many ears must one man have,
Before he can hear people cry? 9. Yes and how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
Tensionhead, you solved my problem.
But are you also able to answer Bob Dylan's 9 questions?
Are you going to solve the other mysteries of the world?
Or are you just going to blow in the wind?
Like we all do?
Só hoje descobri estes lugar sagrado e dou-te os parabésn. Usei esta canção dezenas de vezes nas minhas aulas.....
Ainda bem que tens um blog. vale a pena.
bjo
I'm a little bit atrasado Abílio,, but I never saw this blog before.
It is marvellous, the idea is inspired, even if the questions go eternally unanswered.
Maybe they all morph into just one question: Are we able/Will we ever be able to LIVE TOGETHER? If not in harmony & cooperation, then at least in peace and respect for each other?
Abraços
Stew
# posted by Cabecilha on January 29th, 2010 4:18 pm
well done :)
# posted by Tensionhead on January 29th, 2010 12:04 am
great great great reply. i now need to change my title - without you, ive got nothing sir
"Hey everybody, I also have 6771!"
# posted by Tensionhead on January 28th, 2010 11:01 pm
1. How many roads must a man walk down,
2. How many seas must a white dove sail,
3. How many times must cannonballs fly,
4. How many years can a mountain exist,
5. How many years can some people exist,
6. How many times can a man turn his head,
7. Yes and how many times must a man look up,
8. Yes and how many ears must one man have,
9. Yes and how many deaths will it take till he knows
