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The Annotation Project is a collaborative effort by all of the readers of rec.music.dylan, a usenet newsgroup. The goal is to completely annotate the collection of Bob Dylan's 1966 writings eventually published in 1971 under the title of Tarantula by Macmillan.
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IntroductionThis is an ongoing project to annotate certain writings of Bob Dylan collected together and published under the title Tarantula.
Tarantula consists of many sections that would not properly be called chapters, but are nonetheless headed by a title. They are not numbered. The uneven line length is due to its porportional font printing in the original. Line breaks have been carefully reproduced as they appear there.
Over time we should take this opportunity to examine each section & make annotations showing how much of what swims around in this book is connected to his life & his other works & his time. Since this is a work of fantasy & imagination, we should also work at it that way - free association is the operative term here. Rather than take in the whole work in one gulp, this project will only consider small nibbles at a time for research & analysis. Participants should ask all questions about anything. Contributors should be many & repeated. There should be a consensus about what each annotation will look like in its final form, especially the urticating hairs.
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Deputy Sheriff's ReportOfficial EDLIS Statistics:
Total Pages now held in captivity: 42
Total Pages in the book: 137
Current effective apprehension rate: 30.6%
Pages ever released in the wild to
rec.music.dylan: 36
Sections posted on the walls of rec.music.dylan: 13
Posse reports and sightings from rec.music.dylan:
Section 1: Guns, the Falcon's Mouthbook & Gashcat Unpunished (first part)
Section 3: (Pointless Like a Witch)
Section 5: On Busting the Sound Barrier
Section 7: Prelude to the Flatpick
Section 12: Forty Links of Chain (A Poem)
Total Pages booked at the HTML desk (webbed): 2
Section 1: Guns, the Falcon's Mouthbook & Gashcat Unpunished (both parts)
Section 2: Having a Weird Drink with the Long Tall Stranger
Current Sections still at large awaiting feedback from rec.music.dylan:
Section 1: Guns, the Falcon's Mouthbook & Gashcat Unpunished (second part)
Section 2: Having a Weird Drink with the Long Tall Stranger
To participate, you need to rustle your leaves right on over to the usenet newsgroup rec.music.dylan.
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