On May 12, 7:50Â pm, Babs
aol.com> wrote:
> On May 12, 7:41Â pm, Janice
dixoncreekstudio.com> wrote:
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>>> I kept running into Bob this weekend, first on a website with an
>> interesting review of Tarantula, then at a corner coffee shop all
>> dressed in vinyl...
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>> First, an interesting review of Tarantula by Mark Spitzer for Jack
>> Magazine (btw, great art work but now defunct?). Â I couldn't find any
>> reference to this particular review in the archives, tho' I did find
>> some excellent discussions of Tarantula. Â My personal opinion of the
>> book is that it is an orgy of metaphor and allegory that sits
>> enticingly just beyond the tip of the tongue. Â Anyway, here's his last
>> paragraph:
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>> "Meanwhile, there's an undiscovered continent of sense to be made from
>> the seemingly nonsensical pages of Tarantula. Because reviewers of
>> music are not authorities on poetry, there's a whole poetic "novel" by
>> Dylan here waiting to be praised for cryptic brilliance. So get past
>> the music, Garbage Clowns, and read the book--but slowly, and out
>> loud, pausing with reflection."
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>> Then, I no sooner turn around, and there's Bob at a local coffee stand
>> that sells vinyl albums and lines their walls with framed album art...
>> Planet Waves is sitting in full view. Â I haven't thought about Planet
>> Waves in decades, and so again I dashed off to the archives to see
>> what was what, and again, some great discussion about Planet Waves,
>> especially the thread titled 'Someone convince me on Planet Waves'...
>> So I just wanted to add that I always loved the cover, thought it
>> would make great wall art.
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>> Hey dudley,>President_dudley wrote in message ...
>>>Somebody remind me to sing this to muh missus one day... I've got a fair
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>> baritone
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>> Still need a reminder?
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>> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ~`~
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>> this land is your land & this land is my land--sure--but the world is
>> run by those that never listen to the music anyway--
>> Tarantula
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> Glad you brought up Tarantula, and your personal opinion is
> brilliantly expressed. And I second the reviewer's suggestion to read
> the book out loud. Best case scenario is reading it aloud, back and
> forth, with a friend.
I also think it ages well. Many years down the road lends a lot of
perspective, and what once may have seemed out of reach is now
intriguingly familiar. . . guess some of us had to grow into it. Do
you suppose Bob gets tired of waiting around? Or maybe even he
doesn't know what he knows (that can happen). . .
to my students:
i take it for granted that youve all read
& understand freud--dostoevsky--st.
michael--confucius--coco joe--einstein--
melville--porgy snaker--john zulu--kafka--
sartre--smallfry--& tolstoy--all right then--
what my work is--is merely picking up where
they left off--nothing more--there you have
it in a nutshell--now i'm giving you my
boo
--i expct you all to jump right in--
the exam will be in two weeks--everybody
has to bring their own eraser.
~`~
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