I especially liked the tunes on love and theft set to those laconic old tunes, I think they are the best ones. Dylan's lines about the grove of trees... burns with the bark still on--are so much better than the original, I wouldn't admit it if I were the source.
   
   The question for me isn't compensation, or who knows what to do with something, but a book just isn't a song. They do different things, and the market just does what it does with them. If Dylan had written the same book word for word it would sell better, that's how it is. People are a mule. They've heard of it. The book might be a better book than the song is a song, but I don't know. If somebody gave me the book I might read it. Somebody gave me the songs.