⁴The ‘Dylanologist’ A. J. Weberman, who was in close (too close, in Dylan’s opinion) contact with Dylan in the early 70s, has made attempts to read a consistent symbolic language into Dylan’s texts, so that ‘rain’ always means e.g. ‘war’ or ‘heroin’ etc., but this can hardly be regarded as more than a curiosity. Central to his ‘investigation’ was a methodical scrutinizing of Dylan’s garbage, in the search for discarded scribblings and other important material. Weberman’s interpretations stem from an obsession to prove that Dylan is a drug addict and that he has AIDS. They used to be accesible on the web site www.dylanology.com, but he has not been able to maintain it, apparently because he’s in jail – for drug crimes.