Finishing our bacon and eggs, we agreed with each other that Jesus was a kind of anarchist and the Holy Spirit “like a wind,” as the Bible had put it. “No one knows where it comes from or where it’s going.” I muse on how this must have been on Bob Dylan’s mind when he wrote, “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” Surely this was what Van Morrison was on about when he sang about sailing into the mystic? Ali tolerated this furtive thinking and listened when I explained that Van Morrison and Bob Dylan were the first singers to encourage me to believe in what you can’t see. We both got
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