From: goo goo goo gooch mccracken
Category: Amis
Date: 7/18/99
Time: 5:15:13 PM
Remote Name: 129.219.247.118
FROM *LONDON FIELDS*: "Little Nicola, turning away from her rotting textbook or the headmaster's switch, would weep over her friend's long letters...Then she squeezed lemon on to her eleventh oyster, and waited before adding the Tabasco. It flinched reassuringly. After all, you eat them alive...The alcohol and the conversation combined to assist Nicola in her next project, which was to start crying."
FROM *THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER* BY LEWIS CARROLL: "I weep for you", the Walrus said. "I deeply sympathize." With sobs and tears he sorted out those of the largest size. Holding his pocket-hankerchief before his streaming eyes. "O Oysters", said the Carpenter, "You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?" But answer came there none---and this was scarcely odd, because they'd eaten every one.
FROM *I AM THE WALRUS* BY JOHN LENNON: "Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess. Boy, you been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down. I am the eggman. They are the eggmen. I am the walrus. Goo goo goo joob."
FROM THE *MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR* LINER NOTES: Track #6. I Am the Walrus. ("No you're not!" said Little Nicola). John Lennon--Paul McCartney. 4:35. Even as they dance the magic takes effect and the bus is spirited away to the amazing musical land of the walrus! "I am the walrus" says John. "No, you're not" cries Nicola, laughing at his funny feathery hat. Nicola is the very youngest little girl on the bus. "I've got a present for you!" says John. And he gives her a big red balloon. She hasn't quite enough puff to blow it up for herself so John and George help her.
FROM *LENNON REMEMBERS*: "I was the walrus, whatever that means. We saw the movie in LA and the walrus was a big capitalist that ate all the fuckin' oysters. If you must know, that's what he was. I always had this image of the walrus in the garden and I loved it. And so I didn't ever check what the walrus was. I didn't go around saying 'I'm the walrus, is it something?'. But he's a fucking bastard. That's what he turns out to be. But the way it's written, everybody presumes that means something. I mean even I did. So we all just presumed just cause I said 'I am the walrus' that it must mean I am God or something. But it's just poetry."
FROM THE *PLAYBOY*/JOHN LENNON INTERVIEW: "It's from *The Walrus and the Carpenter*. *Alice in Wonderland*. To me, it was a beautiful poem. It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist and social system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles' work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought: Oh shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said 'I am the carpenter'. But that wouldn't have been the same, would it?"