Illusion to me now

ILLUSION.

That word keeps haunting me lately.
In "Tangled Up In Blue" (Blood on the Tracks album) Bob Dylan says,
"All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now...gettin' through...
tangled up in blue...."
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And Fleetwood Mac / "Gold Dust Woman":
Well did she make you cry? Make you break down?
Shatter your illusions of love, Now tell me --
is it over now, do you know how --
to pick up the pieces and go home....?
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and, Election Day, a guy at work: "It's an illusion. To make us think that we have a say...."
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online dictionary -- ILLUSION.
1. something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
2. the state or condition of being deceived; misapprehension.
3. an instance of being deceived.
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Just remembered another one -- on a documentary / feature about the television series "Bewitched" Kasey Rogers (who played Larry Tate's wife Louise for most of the series, though not at the beginning) talked about Agnes Moorehead (the actress who played Samantha's mother, Endora):
Kasey Rogers said when Miss Moorehead was asked about her choice of acting as a career, she would reply, with pleasantly flamboyant emphasis,
"I love the illusion!"
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The Election Illusion (if that's true) is to fool us.
Dylan's illusion in "Tangled Up..." is past stuff which may not be relevant depending on how you look at it, and how you feel.
"Gold Dust Woman" illusion is -- sadness and disappointment, hitting hard:
"SHATTER your illusions of love..."
And Agnes Moorehead's Illusion was -- All In Fun, and for the noble purpose of Telling A Story.
(I LOVE the ILLUSION - !)

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