DAMMIT This was supposed to go up yesterday, but I got distracted by the beautiful weather and scampered out into the sun instead of focusing on BLOGGING! For shame.
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I wanted to post an excerpt of Lewis Lapham’s With the Beatles but unfortunately do not have enough time to do both, so here, on this holy day, is a tribute to and by the man (and his other half) many love oh so much:
Questionnaire Proust Filled in by Lennon and Ono at the Amsterdam Hilton
John’s answers are first, Yoko’s are second, though you can probably figure it out even without any direction…
Birthdate: 9/10/40, 6:30 PM Feb 18th, 1933, 8:20 PM
1. What is the utmost misery for you? Jealousy Jealousy
2. Where would you like to live? With Yoko With John
3. What is your idea of earthly happiness? Yoko John
4. What kind of faults do you sympathize with? Yoko’s and mine John’s and mine
5. Who are your favorite personalities in literature? Yoko John
6. Who is your favorite historical personality? Yoko John
7. Who are your favorite heroines in literature? Yoko John (!)
8. Who are you favorite heroines? Yoko John (!!)
9. Who is your favorite painter? Yoko John
10. Who is your favorite composer? Yoko and me John and me
11. What characteristics do you appreciate in a man? Yoko John
12. What characteristics do you appreciate in a woman? Yoko John (!)
13. What is your favorite virtue? Yoko John
14. What is your favorite occupation? Yoko John
15. What you have liked to be? Yoko John
16. What is your most important characteristic? Yoko John
17. What do you most appreciate in your girlfriend? Yoko to keep off John
18. What is your greatest fault? Yoko John
19. What is your dream of happiness? Yoko John
20. What would be your greatest disaster? No Yoko No John
21. What would you like to be? Yoko John
22. What is your favorite color? Yoko John
23. What is your favorite flower? Yoko John
24. What is your favorite bird? Yoko John
25. Who are your favorite authors? Yoko and me John
26. Who are your favorite poets? Yoko and me John and me
27. Who are your heroes in real life? Yoko John
28. Who are your heroines in history? Yoko John
29. What are your favorite names? Yoko John
30. What do you dislike most? No Yoko no John
31. Which historical personality do you detest most? Sam Smith Nobody
32. Which military event do you admire most? Sam Smith None
33. Which reform do you admire most? Yoko John
34. What natural gift would you like to possess? Yoko John
35. How would you like to die? With Yoko With John
36. What is your present state of mind? Yoko John
37. What is your motto? Yoko and John forever
To the left of the piano you’ll see a little bed; I slept on its equivalent on the other side of the room (off screen) last night. Here I am at Shakespeare and Company! My trip to Paris is as cliched young-writer-in-France as it possibly could be. I wanted to go to the Musee Rodin this morning but alas, my debit card seems not to be working, and according to a very helpful I think Indian woman at Chase Bank, I can use it again in two hours. This sucks, because I would like some baguette, and to do a little activity or two.
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