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Tarantula meets Mustang: Dylan Calls on Patti Smith

James Wolcott, The Village Voice, 7 July 1975

A COPY OF Witt was slid across the table to Patti Smith. "Would you sign this for me, please?" "Sure," said Patti, "what's your first name?" He told her. "Like in New Jersey?" Patti asked, and he said no: with a z. "Well, I'll draw you a map of Jersey," and so on the inside page Patti scratched its intestinal boundaries, in the middle labelled it Neo Jersey, signed her name, and passed the copy of Witt back to Jerzy Kosinski.

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