3rd Avenue Fair 1.

This is a quote from Constantine's Sword by James Carroll about the time that Bob Dylan played before John Paul II.

"At the conlusion of Dylan's brief set, the pope went to the microphone. 'The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.' he said in his heavily accented English, quoting Dylan's legendary lyric. His Holiness defined the wind as 'the breath and life of the Holy Spirit.'

Then, as if justifying the presence of Bob Dylan and, not incidentally, defending Dylan's now renounced conversion, John Paul raised the epic question: "How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?" And he answered it: "One! There is ony one road for man, and it is Christ, who said, 'I am the Life'!"