I’d thought for years that the great line, “what’s been did and what’s been hid” had come from Bob Dylan’s early work/songs. But it seems that the line was getting about in left circles generally, most of all in 1960s New York. So now it seems that the line is generic, although I’m still sure that Bob Dylan used the line well.
Author: Dan Byrnes
Dan Byrnes is an Australian poet, writer, historian, a one-time journalist in Tamworth NSW Australia (or, Country Music Capital, Australia). Born in Sydney in 1948, meaning in late 2018 he is aged 70! He is deeply interested in modern Australian history (since 1788), literature, poetry and music. He had a normal high school education plus several stints at university, ending with a double major in History/Psychology, then with an Honours degree in History. Of late, and as he gets older - in 2019 he will be 71 - he spends time compiling and recompiling old work, adding to this blog, and wondering deeply with the history of Australia since 1788, a relatively new country, which received up to 162,000 convicts from Britain, why there is such apathy to maritime history in general and in particular, such apathy to the question: who owned/insured the convict ships?
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