Blonde on Blonde is an album that transcends time, defies space, suspends reality, looks through the human soul and tells listeners qualities about themselves that they did not know. Professor Sean Wilentz, historian of the Bob Dylan website, comes closest to summing up his magnificence in his excellent book Bob Dylan in America: "These songs are rich meditations on desire, fragility, promise, boredom, pain, envy, connection, paranoia, and transcendent beauty-in short, the lures and pitfalls of love, standard rock and pop themes, but written with a powerful literary imagination and played out in the underworld of pop music.