The Book Notes feature over at Largehearted Boy strikes again today with a playlist plus commentary for the new novel Kapitoil. Teddy Wayne, writer of the book, gives us a movie-esque soundtrack for his novel about computer programmers during the final days of the 20th century. The first track? Bob Dylan’s “Dont Think Twice, It’s All Right.”
“Karim, from an Arab country, perks up because of a line in the chorus—’My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums’—but then he fixates on the image of ‘warehouse eyes’ and asks Rebecca what it means. She doesn’t give a definitive answer, and he’s forced to confront another system of language (complex metaphor, in this case) that doesn’t yield its answers so easily. I’ve always paid attention to this line because of the close reading Christopher Ricks applies to it in his book Dylan’s Visions of Sin, in which he also acknowledges the linguistic impossibilities and pleasures of using a noun as an adjective.”
This got us thinking about what songs would fit with well known books. Any suggestions? Ever listen to the radio and think “yeah, that’d fit perfectly in Lolita“?
