> On May 12, 7:50 pm, Babs aol.com> wrote:
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>> On May 12, 7:41 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?).  I couldn't find any
>>> reference to this particular review in the archives, tho' I did find
>>> some excellent discussions of Tarantula.  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.  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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>>> And here's the review in full:http://www.jackmagazine.com/issue7/essaysmspitzer.html

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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.  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

>

>>> Still need a reminder?

>

>>>                          ~`~
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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

>>. . .
>> 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
> book--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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