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What Kind Of Alchemy Could Create A Perfume That Would Make A Reaction To A Person Lukewarm, Indifferent And Apathetic?if Such A Scent Could Be Made I'd Like Some.

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What Kind Of Alchemy Could Create A Perfume That Would Make A Reaction To A Person Lukewarm, Indifferent And Apathetic?if Such A Scent Could Be Made I'd Like Some.

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Creativity Has A Lot To Do With The Main Idea. Inspiration Is What Comes When You Are Dealing With The Idea. But Inspiration Won't Invite What's Not There To Begin With.

Peace Is The Time It Takes To Reload Your Rifle.

There's Eyes Behind The Mirrors In Empty Places.

I Never Did Use Earphones Until Into The Eighties Or Nineties. I Don't Like To Use Earphones. I've Never Heard Anybody Sing With Earphones Effectively. They Just Give You A False Sense Of Security. A Lot Of Us Don't Need Earphones. I Don't Think Springsteen Or Mick Do. But Other People More Or Less Have Given In. But They Ought Not To. They Don't Need To. Especially If They Have A Good Band.

A Cat's Meow And Cow's Moo, I Can Recite Them All.

In My Childhood Everything You Heard, You Could Imagine What It Looked Like. Even Singers That I Would Hear On The Radio, I Couldn't See What They Looked Like, So I Imagined What They Looked Like. What They Were Wearing. What Their Movements Were. Gene Vincent? When I First Pictured Him, He Was A Tall, Lanky Blond-haired Guy.

Because Dickens And Dostoyevsky And Woody Guthrie Were Telling Their Stories Much Better Than I Ever Could, I Decided To Stick To My Own Mind.

Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? Use Your Arms And Your Legs, It Won't Ruin You

Sometimes I Wonder What It's Gonna Take To Find Dignity.

They Self-inflict Punishment On Their Own Broken Lives, Put Their Faith In Their Possessions, In Their Jobs, Or Their Wives.

The Songs Are My Lexicon. I Believe The Songs.

Take Me On A Trip Upon Your Magic Swirling Ship.

I'm A Liberal To A Degree, I Want Everybody To Be Free. But If You Think That I'll Let Barry Goldwater Move In Next Door.

Get Jailed, Jump Bail, Join The Army If You Fail.

In The Dime Stores And Bus Stations  People Talk Of Situations  Read Books, Repeat Quotations  Draw Conclusions On The Wall  Some Speak Of The Future  My Love She Speaks Softly  She Knows There’s No Success Like Failure  And That Failure’s No Success At All -bob Dylan, “love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)

City's Just A Jungle; More Games To Play Trapped In The Heart Of It, Tryin' To Get Away I Was Raised In The Country, I Been Workin' In The Town I Been In Trouble Ever Since I Set My Suitcase Down

The Times Are A-changing And If We Don't We Will Sink Like A Stone.

At Times In My Life The Only Place I Have Been Happy Is When I Am On Stage.

Opportunities May Come Along For You To Convert Something - Something That Exists Into Something That Didn't Yet. That Might Be The Beginning Of It.

The Song Was There Before Me, Before I Came Along. I Just Sorta Came Down And Just Sorta Took It Down With A Pencil, But It Was There Before I Came Around.

I'm Looking For A Woman Who's Head Is Mixed Up Like Mine.

You Might Be A Rock And Roll Addict Prancing On The Stage. You Might Have Drugs At Your Command, Women In A Cage.

I Got This Grave Yard Woman.

I Want To Use Songs That Everybody Knows Or Thinks They Know. I Want To Show Them A Different Side Of It And Open Up That World In A More Unique Way. You Have To Believe What The Words Are Saying And The Words Are As Important As The Melody. Unless You Believe The Song And Have Lived It, There's Little Sense In Performing It. I Never Wanted To Be A Singer That

My Senses Have Been Stripped, My Hands Can't Feel To Grip, My Toes To Numb To Step, Wait Only For My Boot Heels To Be Wandering.

Little Red Wagon, Little Red Bike, I Ain’t No Monkey But I Know What I Like.

Having Hits Buries A Singer In The Past. A Lot Of Singers Hide In The Past Because It's Safer Back There. If You've Ever Heard Today's Country Music, You'll Know What I'm Talking About.

You I Am Sure Will Forgive Me For Sincerely Remarking That You Might Curb Your Magnanimity And Be More Of An Artist, And 'load Every Rift' Of Your Subject With Ore.

The Harmonica Is The World's Best-selling Musical Instrument. You're Welcome.

Anybody Can Be Specific And Obvious. That's Always Been The Easy Way. It's Not That It's So Difficult To Be Unspecific And Less Obvious; It's Just That There's Nothing, Absolutely Nothing, To Be Specific And Obvious About.

You Don't Have To Be Afraid Of Looking Into My Face. We've Done Nothing To Each Other That Time Will Not Erase.

You Always Got To Be Prepared But You Never Know For What.

Don't Criticize What You Can't Understand.

All The People We Used To Know, They're An Illusion To Me Now.

Creativity Has Much To Do With Experience, Observation And Imagination, And If Any One Of Those Key Elements Is Missing, It Doesn't Work.

Seven Shots Ring Out Like The Ocean's Pounding Roar, There's Seven People Dead On A South Dakota Farm.

I Took Her By The Hand And My Heart It Was Thumpin'. When She Said, Hey Man, You Crazy Or Somethin'?

I'm Not A Folk-singer. I Just Sing A Certain Place.

You Should Always Take The Best From The Past, Leave The Worst Back There And Go Forward Into The Future.

I Never Wanted To Be A Prophet Or A Saviour. Elvis Maybe

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People Have Different Emotional Levels. Especially When You're Young.

Don't Matter How Much Money You Got, There's Only Two Kinds Of People: There's Saved People And There's Lost People.

How Can The Life Of Such A Man Be In The Palm Of Some Fools Hand?

Jesus Tapped Me On The Shoulder And Said, Bob, Why Are You Resisting Me? I Said, I'm Not Resisting You! He Said, You Gonna Follow Me? I Said, I've Never Thought About That Before! He Said, When You're Not Following Me, You're Resisting Me.

Loneliness Got A Mind Of Its Own The More People Around The More You Feel Alone

I Need All Kinds Of Songs - Fast Ones, Slow Ones, Minor Key, Ballads, Rumbas - And They All Get Juggled Around During A Live Show. I've Been Trying For Years To Come Up With Songs That Have The Feeling Of A Shakespearean Drama, So I'm Always Starting With That.

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Well, I Don't Know, But I've Been Told The Streets In Heaven Are Lined With Gold. I Ask You How Things Could Get Much Worse If The Russians Happen To Get Up There First; Wowee! Pretty Scary!

You Hurt The Ones That I Love Best And Cover Up The Truth With Lies. One Day You'll Be In The Ditch, Flies Buzzin' Around Your Eyes.

For Them That Think Death's Honesty Won't Fall Upon Them Naturally Life Sometimes Must Get Lonely.

Technology Is Mechanical And Contrary To The Emotions That Inform A Person's Life. The Country Music Field Has Especially Been Hit Hard By This. All My Songs Have Been Written By People Who Went Out Of Fashion Years Ago. Just Like Da Vinci And Renoir And Van Gogh. Nobody Paints Like That Anymore. But It Can't Be Wrong To Try.

Every Nerve In My Body Is So Vacant And Numb/i Can't Even Remember What It Was I Came Here To Get Away From/don't Even Hear A Murmur Of A Prayer/it's Not Dark Yet, But It's Getting There.

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Yesterday's Just A Memory, Tomorrow Is Never What It's Supposed To Be.

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Forget The Dead You've Left, They Will Not Follow You.

I Was Just Too Stubborn To Ever Be Governed By Enforced Insanity.

Done Laid Around, Done Stayed Around This Old Town Too Long And It Seems Like I've Got To Travel On

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In 1975,bob Dylan Was Almost 10 Years Past His Prime - And Then He Released The Best Album Of His Career, Blood On The Tracks. Written And Recorded Amid A Painful Divorce, Blood On The Tracks Is Proof That Heartbreak Makes Great Art - Just As Many Of The Albums That Followed Were The Opposite.

Sailin' 'round The World In A Dirty Gondola Oh, To Be Back In The Land Of Coca-cola!

In The Valley Of The Giants Where The Stars And Stripes Explode, The Peaches They Were Sweet And The Milk And Honey Flowed.

The First Thing I Know, I'm In A Card Game. Then I'm In A Crap Game.

One Night Around That Time, At Hammersmith, Bob Dylan Was About To Go Into [his 1963 Classic] 'don't Think Twice, It's Alright.he Said, 'hey, Bucky! Play Mandolin On This.' I Am Not Really A Mandolin Player; I Could Only Play In Certain Keys. Halfway Through, He Stops The Band, Turns To The Audience And Points To Me. He Says: 'he Isn't Playing, He's Miming.' And Then: 'should I Fire Him?' The Whole Audience Yells.

I Was So Much Older Then; I'm Younger Than That Now. From The Back Pages

They Can't Hurt Me. Sure, They Can Crush You And Kill You. They Can Lay You Out On 42nd And Broadway And Put Hoses On You And Flush You In The Sewers And Put You On The Subway And Carry You Out To Coney Island And Bury You On The Ferris Wheel. But I Refuse To Sit Here And Worry About Dying.

To Live Outside The Law, You Must Be Honest.

Broken Bottles, Broken Plates, Broken Switches, Broken Gates. Broken Dishes, Broken Parts, Streets Are Filled With Broken Hearts.

I Been Meek, And Hard Like An Oak, I Seen Pretty People Disappear Like Smoke. Friends Will Arrive, Friends Will Disappear. If You Want Me, Honey Baby, I'll Be Here.

I Set My Monkey On The Log, And Ordered Him To Do The Dog. He Wagged His Tail And Shook His Head, And He Went And Did The Cat Instead.

Clowns To The Left Of Me, Jokers To The Right, Here I Am.

Stuck In The Middle

Nobody Has Ever Taught You How To Live On The Street.

They Kill People Here Who Stand Up For Their Rights The System's Just Too Damned Corrupt It's Always The Same, The Name Of The Game Is Who Do You Know Higher Up

Someone Handed Me Mexico City Blues In St. Paul [minnesota] In 1959 And It Blew My Mind. It Was The First Poetry That Spoke My Own Language.

Life Has Its Ups And Downs, And Time Has To Be Your Partner. Really, Time Is Your Soul Mate.

There Doesn't Seem To Be Any Tomorrow. Every Time I Wake Up, No Matter In What Position, It's Always Been Today.

The Man In The Coon Skin Cap In The Pig Pen Wants Eleven Dollar Bills, You've Only Got Ten.

There Are No Truths Outside The Gates Of Eden.

You Breathed On Me And Made My Life A Richer One To Live, When I Was Deep In Poverty You Taught Me How To Give. Dried The Tears Up From My Dreams And Pulled Me From My Hole, Quenched My Thirst And Satisfied The Burning In My Soul.

I Started Writing Songs After I Heard Hank Williams.

Art Can Lead You To God. I Think That's The Purpose Of Everything. If It's Not Doing That, What's It Doing? It's Leading You The Other Way. It's Certainly Not Leading You Nowhere.

A Million Faces At My Feet But All I See Are Dark Eyes.

Sometimes The Silence Can Be Like Thunder.

Too Much Of Nothing, It Just Makes A Fellow Mean.

Praise Be To Nero's Neptune The Titanic Sails At Dawn And Everybody's Shouting "which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound And T.s. Eliot Fighting In The Captain's Tower While Calypso Singers Laugh At Them And Fishermen Hold Flowers.

I Play These [folk Acoustic] Concerts And I Ask Myself, 'would You Come See Me Tonight?' - And I'd Have To Answer Truthfully, 'no, I Wouldn't Come. I'd Rather Be Doin' Something Else, Really I Would. That Something Else Is Rock... The Words Are Pictures, And The Rock's Gonna Help Me Flesh Out The Colors Of The Pictures. (1965)

What's Money? A Man Is A Success If He Gets Up In The Morning And Goes To Bed At Night And In Between Does What He Wants To Do.

It Rubs Me The Wrong Way, A Camera... It's A Frightening Thing...cameras Make Ghosts Out Of People.

Each One Of Them Suffering From The Failures Of Their Day, With Strings Of Guilt They Tried Hard To Guide Us.

Well, The Moral Of The Story, The Moral Of This Song, Is Simply That One Should Never Be Where One Does Not Belong. So When You See Your Neighbor Carryin' Somethin', Help Him With His Load, And Don't Go Mistaking Paradise For That Home Across The Road.

Any Real Bob Dylan Fan Would Sleep With Jonah Lehrer.

Every Cause That Ever I Fought, I Fought It Full Without Regret Or Shame.

Everything That I'm Saying You Can Say It Just As Good

You're Better Than No One And No One Is Better Than You.

Better Than You

You've Got A Lotta Nerve To Say You Are My Friend. When I Was Down You Just Stood There A Grinin

Sometimes It's Not Enough To Know What Things Mean, Sometimes You Have To Know What Things Don't Mean.

If I Made Records For My Own Pleasure, I Would Only Record Charley Patton Songs.

Beauty Walks A Razors Edge, Someday I'll Make It Mine.

There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Out Of Here,' Said The Joker To The Thief.

After A While You Earn That Privacy Is Something You Can Sell, But You Can't Buy It Back.

Just Because You Like My Stuff Doesn't Mean I Owe You Anything.

I Bargained For Salvation And They Gave Me A Lethal Dose.

I'll Let You Be In My Dreams If I Can Be In Yours.

The First Thing You Notice About New Orleans Are The Burying Grounds - The Cemeteries - And They're A Cold Proposition, One Of The Best Things There Are Here. Going By, You Try To Be As Quiet As Possible, Better To Let Them Sleep. Greek, Roman, Sepulchres- Palatial Mausoleums Made To Order, Phantomesque, Signs And Symbols Of Hidden Decay - Ghosts Of Women And Men Who Have Sinned And Who've Died And Are Now Living In Tombs. The Past Doesn't Pass Away So Quickly Here. You Could Be Dead For A Long Time

Well The Deputy Walks On Hard Nails And The Preacher Rides A Mount, But Nothing Really Matters Much It's Doom Alone That Counts.

Obscenity, Who Really Cares. Propaganda, All Is Phony.

Once I Can Focus In On Something, I Just Play It In My Mind Until An Idea Comes From Out Of Nowhere, And It's Usually The Key To The Whole Song. It's The Idea That Matters. It's Like Electricity Was Around Long Before Edison Harnessed It.

Half Of The People Can Be Part Right All Of The Time, Some Of The People Can Be All Right Part Of The Time. I Think Abraham Lincoln Said That. 'i'll Let You Be In My Dreams If I Can Be In Yours,' I Said That.

To Preach Of Peace And Brotherhood, Oh What Might Be The Cost? A Man He Did It Long Ago, And They Hung Him On A Cross.

Suddenly I Found You And The Spirit In Me Sings, Don't Have To Look No Further, You're The Soul Of Many Things.

Don't Follow Leaders.

Bob Dylan Wrote In His Elliptical Memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, He Was Washed Up In The 1980s, No Longer A Commercial Success, And No Longer Putting Out Good Work.

I Can Picture The Color Of The Song, Or The Shape Of It, Or Who It Is That I'm Trying To Appeal To, In The Song, And What I'm Trying To, Almost, Reinforce My Feelings For. And I Know That Sounds Sort Of Vague And Abstract, But I've Got A Handle On It When I'm Doing It.

Despite Everybody Who Has Been Born And Has Died, The World Has Just Gone On. I Mean, Look At Napoleon -but We Went Right On. Look At Harpo Marx -the World Went Around, It Didn't Stop For A Second. It's Sad But True. John Kennedy, Right?

The Duke [john Wayne] Was A Massive Figure. He Looked Like A Heavy Piece Of Hauled Lumber, And It Didn't Seem Like Any Man Could Stand Shoulder To Shoulder With Him.

Folk Songs Are Evasive-the Truth About Life, And Life Is More Or Less A Lie, But Then Again That's Exactly The Way We Want It To Be. We Wouldn't Be Comfortable With It Any Other Way. A Folk Song Has Over A Thousand Faces And You Must Meet Them All If You Want To Play This Stuff. A Folk Song Might Vary In Meaning And It Might Not Appear The Same From One Moment To The Next. It Depends On Who's Playing And Who's Listening.

Abe Said, Where Do You Want This Killing Done? God Said, Out On Highway 61.

Well The Lone Ranger And Tonto, They Are Riding Down The Line Fixing Everybody's Troubles, Everybody Except Mine.

Masters Of The Bluff And Masters Of The Proposition, But The Enemy I See Wears A Cloak Of Decency.

Got No Religion. Tried A Bunch Of Different Religions. The Churches Are Divided. Can't Make Up Their Minds And Neither Can I.

Romance Never Does Go Out Of Fashion. It's Radical. But It's Out Of Step With The Current Media Culture.

They Say Every Man Needs Protection They Say Every Man Must Fall So, I Swear I See My Reflection Somewhere Inside These Walls... I Shall Be Released.

Opportunities May Come Along For You To Convert Something -something That Exists Into Something That Didn't Yet. That Might Be The Beginning Of It. Sometimes You Just Want To Do Things Your Way, Want To See For Yourself What Lies Behind The Misty Curtain. It's Not Like You See Songs Approaching And Invite Them In. It's Not That Easy. You Want To Write Songs That Are Bigger Than Life. You Want To Say Something About Strange Things That Have Happened To You, Strange Things You Have Seen. You Have To Know And Understand Something And Then Go Past The Vernacular.

She Makes Love Just Like A Woman.

But I Would Not Feel So All Alone, Everybody Must Get Stoned.

He Swift Don't Win The Race. It Goes To The Worthy, Who Can Divide The Word Of Truth.

Look Out Your Window, And I'll Be Gone. You're The Reason I'm A-traveling On.

Oh, Time Is Short And The Days Are Sweet And Passion Rules The Arrow That Flies.

Like The Lion Tears The Flesh Off A Man, So Can A Woman Who Passes Herself Off As A Male.

The Walls Of Pride Are High And Wide, Can't See Over To The Other Side.

I Gaze Into The Doorway Of Temptation's Angry Flame And Every Time I Pass That Way I Always Hear My Name

All This Talk About Equality. The Only Thing People Really Have In Common Is That They Are All Going To Die.

Every Man's Conscience Is Vile And Depraved / You Cannot Depend On It To Be Your Guide When It’s You Who Must Keep It Satisfied.

Time Is An Ocean, But It Ends At The Shore.

I Don't Write The Songs; I Just Write 'em Down.

I Have Always Believed That Fame Is A Curse. I Never Envied One Of The Famous People I've Known.

The Executioner's Face Is Always Well Hidden.

I Always Thought The Best Kind Of Sunglasses Are The Motorcycle Helmets With The Black Plastic Masks On Them. That Way, Nobody Can Recognize The Back Of Your Head Either.

I'm Mortified To Be On The Stage, But Then Again, It's The Only Place Where I'm Happy.

What Kind Of Alchemy Could Create A Perfume That Would Make A Reaction To A Person Lukewarm, Indifferent And Apathetic?if Such A Scent Could Be Made I'd Like Some.

And It Dawned On Me That I Might Have To Change My Inner Thought Patterns... That I Would Have To Start Believing In Possibilities That I Wouldn't Have Allowed Before, That I Had Been Closing My Creativity Down To A Very Narrow, Controllable Scale... That Things Had Become Too Familiar And I Might Have To Disorientate Myself. P.71

The People In My Songs Are All Me.

People Have A Hard Time Accepting Anything That Overwhelms Them.

I've Never Written A Political Song. Songs Can't Save The World. I've Gone Through All That.

You Better Start Swimming, Or You'll Sink Like A Stone. Because The Time's They Are A-changing.

Thinking Of A Series Of Dreams Where The Time And The Tempo Fly And There's No Exit In Any Direction 'cept The One That You Can't See With Your Eyes

In The Meantime [1965-67], [bob] Dylan Was Again Writing Some Of The Best Love Songs In The Genre, Like "visions Of Johanna," "just Like A Woman," And "sad-eyed Lady Of The Lowlands."

[bob Dylan] Was Rarely Tender And Seldom Reached Out To Anticipate Another's Needs.

Crimson Flames Tied Through My Ears Rollin' High And Mighty Traps Pounced With Fire On Flaming Roads Using Ideas As My Maps "we'll Meet On Edges, Soon," Said I Proud 'neath Heated Brow. Ah, But I Was So Much Older Then, I'm Younger Than That Now. Half-wracked Prejudice Leaped Forth "rip Down All Hate," I Screamed Lies That Life Is Black And White Spoke From My Skull. I Dreamed Romantic Facts Of Musketeers Foundationed Deep, Somehow. Ah, But I Was So Much Older Then, I'm Younger Than That Now.

Couldn't Help But Make Me Feel Ashamed To Live In A Land Where Justice Is A Game.

Everything's A Business. Love, Truth, Beauty. Conversation Is A Business. Spirituality Is Not A Business, So It's Going To Go Against The Grain Of People Who Are Trying To Exploit Other People.

Heard Ten Thousand Whispering And Nobody Listening. Heard One Person Starve, I Heard Many People Laughing. Heard The Song Of A Poet Who Died In The Gutter.

The Times They Are A-changing.

An Artist Has Got To Be Constantly In A State Of Becoming.

For The Loser Now Will Be Later To Win

Being On Tour Is Like Being In Limbo. It's Like Going From Nowhere To Nowhere.

Nowhere To Turn

Mama's In The Factory, She Ain't Got No Shoes. Daddy's In The Alley, He's Looking For Food.

I Lost My One True Love. I Started Drinking.

The Government's Not Going To Create Jobs. It Doesn't Have To. People Have To Create Jobs.

Love Is All There Is, It Makes The World Go Around. Love And Only Love, It Can't Be Denied.

I Read On The Road In Maybe 1959. It Changed My Life Like It Changed Everyone Else's.

Changed My Life

You'll Find God In The Church Of Your Choice, You'll Find Woody Guthrie In The Brooklyn State Hospital.

I Realize I Don't Do A Very Good Job In Keeping Up To Date, But I Try To.

Without Freedom Of Speech, I Might Be In The Swamp

Freedom Of Speech

Just In Time For Bob Dylan To Recoil From The Attention, Leave The City For Woodstock, And Turn His Back On Fame.

Then Take Me Disappearin' Through The Smoke Rings Of My Mind, Down The Foggy Ruins Of Time, Far Past The Frozen Leaves, The Haunted, Frightened Trees, Out To The Windy Beach, Far From The Twisted Reach Of Crazy Sorrow. Yes, To Dance Beneath The Diamond Sky With One Hand Waving Free, Silhouetted By The Sea, Circled By The Circus Sands, With All Memory And Fate Driven Deep Beneath The Waves, Let Me Forget About Today Until Tomorrow.

I Wish That For Just One Time You Could Stand Inside My Shoes. You'd Know What A Drag It Is To See You.

I Think Of Rock 'n' Roll As A Combination Of Country Blues And Swing Band Music, Not Chicago Blues, And Modern Pop.

The Motorcycle Black Madonna Two Wheeled Gypsy Queen.

If You're Looking To Get Silly, You Better Go Back To From Where You Came. Because The Cops Don't Need You And Man They Expect The Same.

Look, You Know I Don't Wanna Come On Ungrateful, But That Warren Report, You Know As Well As Me, Just Didn't Make It. You Know, Like They Might As Well Have Asked Some Banana Salesman From Des Moines, Who Was Up In Toronto On The Big Day, If He Saw Anyone Around Looking Suspicious/.

The Highlight Of My Career? That's Easy, Elvis Recording One Of My Songs.

Every Singer Has Three Or Four Or Five Techniques, And You Can Force Them Together In Different Combinations. Some Of The Techniques You Discard Along The Way, And Pick Up Others. But You Do Need Them. It's Just Like Anything. You Have To Know Certain Things About What You're Doing That Other People Don't Know. Singing Has To Do With Techniques And How Many You Use At The Same Time. One Alone Doesn't Work. There's No Point To Going Over Three. But You Might Interchange Them Whenever You Feel Like It. It's A Bit Like Alchemy.

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