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Rating: The setting of the Village is in the background, it returns every time it cites Aretha, in the many narrative leaps that bring the presence of something eternal and stable, whether it is the Jewish existence and consequently asking, or Shakespeare for the immanent message of his work.
The most cited is undoubtedly Hamlet, finding his consecration on page 243, "the prince hamlet is somewhere on the totem pole, humming", even the use of the lowercase 'a' is useful to draw attention to the character. Totem, that is, something to worship, instead of inert, the figure is humming, he is singing, for which the assonance is a cultural presence. The education to doubt, in an epochal moment of musical changes, finds expression in the myth of Aretha, from blues to jazz, from gospel to rock, a change that is granted to the hiddish mame, the guardian of the home and tradition, nonetheless, the architect of every change.
From his study, the figure of Poe draws vigor, as a storyteller, already highlighted in his Desolation row, which appears as a gestating Tarantula, the text "They’re selling postcards of the hanging - Romeo’s moaning - And the only sound that remains is Cinderella sweeping up
in the desolation alley-. The game of nonsense, the chaos theory that generates everything while he, who paints himself as a fragile man, seeks the universal order that is told to be peculiar and unknown property of the kabbalah. Musically, another piece recalled by Tarantula as a summary, Ballad of a this man. What does our author want to tell us? That everything develops differently by changing the initial conditions, this was particularly true for music and the expressive mode at that time. Politically it is the post-Kennedy policy, the escalation of the Vietnam War, new interactions with distant worlds, pacifism, rebellion.
Vietnam, as I was saying, but not only that, a new sexual freedom, the make love not war taken as a model for different, sometimes even promiscuous loves, which then led Dylan to distance himself from Joan Baez, both sentimentally and musically, from this detachment she produced diamonds and rust, stigmatizing the moment and telling that the return brings "diamonds and rust", for which Tarantula is an author projected into the future.
"And now you tell me not to feel nostalgia so give me another word to use in its place" says Joan Baez, while he, having overcome the moment, goes with new travel companions, Jonny Cash for example, and composes, because in the end Tarantula is music, poetry, prose, not amiably mixed indeed, reading to be done only with solid bases, or with the pleasure of discovery.
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