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to the station wagon, and we slowly
started to move the station wagon out.

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And I turned around and saw...
There was an amp and his guitars...

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and their suitcases in the back with a little
tarp over it, and I saw the tarp moving.

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Two young girls stowed away
under the tarp.

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So we had to stop and gently eject them.
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And of course,
then all the people were pressing around.

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Bobby!
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All of a sudden, he had become an idol.
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That was the beginning of people
wanting more from him.

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You know,
as if just the songs weren't enough.

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Everybody wanted to sleep with Bobby...
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to get high with Bobby.
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The reverence was for Bobby,
but it was also for what he had created...

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and everybody wanted to get close to it.
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The desire to be next to him produced
a huge magnet which drew everybody.

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Young and old.
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Genius makes its own rules,
and Dylan is a genius.

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A singing conscience and moral referee,
as well as a preacher.

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He's also a very embarrassed
young man now, because...

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It's always embarrassing to sit there
with your feet in cement...

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while somebody compliments you
either casually or lavishly.

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But, I've been reading a number of stories
about Bob this afternoon...

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and they are all of that order.
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A comment in Billboard,
the trade publication, says:

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"Dylan's poetry is born
of a painful awareness...

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"of the tragedy that underlies
the contemporary human condition".

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Bob, do you sing partly your own songs...
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and partly other people's,
or where do you get your material?

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- Well, they're all mine, now.
- You sing all your own material?

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And how long have you been writing
your own music?

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For about two years.

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