Sweet smell of success

Always loved the Travelling Wilburys. Love the video of Handle with Care. Great vocals from the Big O. One moment of magic is near the end when George Harrison sings the line:- "Sweet smell of success" and Roy Orbison, coming into view in the background, has a great smile that for me "says it all", whatever "all" might be.

Not enigmatic at all. Just a simple smile as two friends share a sense of reality. The limits of "success". Not enigmatic but clear and unambiguous. Both have known "success" and know how pointless a life striving for it can be. Roy can smile. Both can smile. Beautiful moment.

Dylan of course is in his own world yet somehow part of everyone elses.

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A great quote here from Thomas Merton on "success":-

[i]If I had a message to my contemporaries it is surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success . . . If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live. If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted.”[/i]

― Thomas Merton "Love and Living"