Word: tarantula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with weird letters, that's the kind of detail they give you on FM radio I used to listen to AM stations and liked Chad and Jeremy before I fell in love with you and my present boyfriend, the zombie also said the book was going to be called Tarantula, is that because it bites you once and is into your bloodstream for good? that's exactly how I feel about you and your songs. . . the only two things I don't like about you are one I hear you're not very kind to Joan Baez...
...reappeared his life was less troubled, his music quieter and more benign. When some friends from the folk music magazine Sing Out! managed to sit him down for a talk in 1968, they asked him, among other things, about a book he was said to have written, called Tarantula. "It wasn't a book," Dylan replied,"It was just a nuisance. It didn't have any structure at all." The book got to the page-proof stage, and then was abandoned after the accident, presumably because it represented a part of Dylan's life that...
Dead End. Dylan fans wouldn't let him. For the past year or so, photocopies of Tarantula's galleys have been sold throughout the rock underground. Dylan, 29, perhaps reasoning that he might just as well share in some of the profits from his own work, finally allowed the book to be launched officially (Macmillan; $3.95). The result is neither novel nor poem, but a series of free-association images that succeed, at best, in creating a freaky fresco of hell. The book has the feel and sound of such nightmare Dylan lyrics as Desolation Row and Memphis...
Moments of effective, surrealistic satire (there is a fine description, for instance, of a man whose house is entirely covered by advertising posters) do not keep Tarantula from being a despairing dead end. In perspective, the book-already a bestseller-should stand less as aesthetic achievement than as a record of a painful time in an artist's life that fortunately has passed. When Bob Dylan wrote Tarantula, he was 23 years...
...campaign has been a study of contrasting styles. The bespectacled Taft has a patrician manner, is cool and distant; he eschews personal contact, approaching a handshake as if it were a tarantula. After a recent factory speech, Taft started to leave and a foreman had to remind him to "shake hands with some of the employees, Bob." Rhodes, the burly and gregarious son of a coal miner, is a charming, indefatigable backslapper and campaigner...