During 1964 and 1965, Dylan had been writing a book, titled Tarantula, which would not be published until 1971. At least one piece of prose became the source for an actual song. As Dylan recalled in 1966, "I found myself writing this song, this story, this long piece of vomit about twenty pages long, and out of it I took 'Like A Rolling Stone'...After writing that, I wasn't interested in writing a novel, or a play.

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