>>The accident was Dylans means of escape from an unendurably fast-paced, pressurized life. As he said in a 1984 interview,<<\
While that could be, it was also true that his music was never that same...
"Blood On The Tracks" and "Desire" stack up.
And thankfully so. Dylan never liked to stand still musicially. Some of his best material appeared in the "post-accident" era -- New Morning, Blood on the Tracks, Street Legal, Infidels, Oh Mercy, Time Out of Mind. .....to name but a few.
Unlike the global climate, which was always exactly the same for billions of years* until evil rich Americans started driving SUVs, people change with time, whether they want to or not.
*</global-warming sarcasm>