In defence of the decision, Engdahl said that when Dylan's songs were heard first in the 1960s: "All of a sudden, much of the bookish poetry in our world felt anaemic".
Surgeons can hardly be surprised that anaemic patients feel better with a few pints of fresh blood in them.
Anaemic women feel tired and lethargic and there are adverse consequences for their educational potential as well as reproductive health.
This was perhaps in retaliation for Jeanette Winterton's Guardian article arguing the march will not be packed with "unspeakable toffs and sinister slit-eyed badger baiters" but ordinary people who feel slowly bled by an "urban drive to make the countryside anaemic".
Ian Watson, who runs How Does It Feel To Be Loved?, sums up the prevalent view: "It was sexless and anaemic and it seemed to be about people who were afraid of life, moaning atonally about how they didn't have a girlfriend".
The Countryside March next weekend will not be packed with unspeakable toffs and sinister slit-eyed badger baiters; it will be a march of ordinary people who feel they are being slowly bled by an urban drive to make the countryside anaemic.
The latter sound slightly anaemic and adrift on a big stage, while their songs of wasted youth feel increasingly nostalgic.
When asked why the Russian government would feel the need to crack down on their organisations so heavily when opposition in Russia was so anaemic, Melkonyants said: "Just like an army always needs war, the authorities need an enemy to justifytheir existence.
HMS @Bestival #iwasthere pic.twitter.com/dDg1dDTSn3 — Guardian music (@guardianmusic) September 7, 2013 Bombay Bicycle Club feel similarly callow today; once a promising math-indie act bringing a spritely new life to guitar music, they now seem anaemic next to meatier sets elsewhere by Jagwar Ma and Peace.
If you eat that burger and those chips – a grey patty of unknown origin, squash-fried on a flat hot plate, anaemic chips, some perfunctory salad, a burger bun baked some years ago, a single slice of cheese – you will feel full and bad and sort of hungover.
