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	<title><![CDATA[Bob Dylan/O Sensei]]></title>
	<body><![CDATA[[I]"Does it really matter precisely when the young Robert Zimmerman first heard Pete Seeger sing?"[/I] 
Bruce Handy, reviewing [I]Bob Dylan in America[/I] by Sean Wilentz in the International Herald Tribune, September 2010

Wow yes. That's a great question. That gets right to the essence. Knowing when and where Dylan first heard Pete Seeger sing might help you with a music history test but it won't make you a better musician.  

And so does it really matter precisely when O Sensei first met Takeda Sokaku? Will knowing it make your aikido better? Even a little? One percent of one percent? Nah. 

If we look forward we can have a vision of the future. We can even change the future. But if we look back the past is already fixed. 

Voltaire said, [I]"Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers."[/I] 

So choose your questions wisely. 

And I'll let Dylan have the final word.

[I]the present now
will later be past[/I]
[I](The times they are a-changin')[/I]

[I]poster by ROOTS UP on flickr [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/pazwaz/3471259412/[/url] used under creative commons licence by very kind permission[/I]

© niall matthews 2010]]></body>
	<date>09-11-2010</date>
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