nihil nisi bonum


Subject: nihil nisi bonum
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sat Jan 01 2000 - 04:59:51 EST


    Over the past few days, despite my best attempts
    at self-defence, I've been exposed to a more or less
    continuous loop of John Lennon's Imagination.

    Those lyrics - even more mournful & banal than
    his usual efforts - about love, areligious simplicity
    & abnegation are in almost grotesque opposition
    to the facts of the man's life; where commercialised
    mysticism, abandonment of wife & child & withdrawal
    into druggy self-abuse in the most exclusive apartment
    block in NY featured so vividly.

    De mortuis & all that. But didn't Chapman, waving
    his Anti-Phoney bible, have a point?

    Scottie B.



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