Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Druggy Logorrhea

I wnder if this is the first time the NYTimes has printed the phrase, "druggy logorreha" (from review of Bob Dylan's new memoir:


Gone is the druggy logorrhea of his 1966 novel, "Tarantula," as Mr. Dylan - a man who says he now owns a bumper sticker reading "World's Greatest Grandpa" - looks back on his life. Yet "Chronicles" is hardly tame. It is lucid without being linear, swirling through time without losing its strong storytelling thread. And it begins and ends at more or less the same place: the calm before the storm, the eve of the Old Him's phenomenal celebrity. As the book begins, he is introduced to the fighter Jack Dempsey, who mistook Mr. Dylan for a fellow slugger. Of course, Mr. Dempsey was right.

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