I don't know Bob Dylan. I can't say, with any certainty, what sort of person he really is. No one can gainsay the influence he has had on popular song, folk or otherwise. That said, I have always had trouble with the manufactured persona; the seeming pose of the enigmatic 'artiste' that took Robert Zimmerman, of Hibbing Minnesota, to fame and fortune as Bob (appropriated from Mr. Thomas) Dylan. I know he's not the first to ride a stage name to success, but I can't help feeling he is still putting us on, talented or not.