Hiding behind a wall of illusion

November 30th, 2004 / #books, #music

Determined to read a book at least once in my life, I ordered from Amazon.com a piece about the possibility of John Lennon’s murderer being a “Manchurian candidate.” A strange possibility, indeed, but it seemed interesting enough to choose to do for a TOK presentation. Evidently, there are just too many coincidences surrounding the assassination and there were too little questions raised after the act to constitute a “lone nut” theory. Daily, I read this book with as much diligence as I had ever put toward reading. So, after about a month of reading (note that I read at about the rate of a mildly retarded sock puppet), I finished Bresler’s Who Killed John Lennon? – just in time to present to Dr. Yarborough the chilling facts surrounding John’s Death.

Ian, upon realizing that I had, against all odds, actually read 200 pages straight, gave to me R. Gary Patterson’s The Walrus Was Paul, a book that investigates all the legendary clues pointing to McCartney’s alleged death. Looking not only at album covers (i.e. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), but also at backward masking and lyrics with double meanings, this volume ever so delicately suggests that the Beatles pulled off the greatest practical joke in history, even if it wasn’t so obvious. Underneath the exquisite musical stylings of the pre-breakup Fab Four lies a whole other artistic realm that is really, really cool to read about. After two days on the interstate between Clearwater and Dillard, Georgia, I am proud to say that I successfully read this book too; that’s two books (which I highly recommend) within a year, a new personal record.

Presently, I am reading The Catcher in the Rye, the piece that Mark David Chapman’s controllers used to allegedly brainwash him into killing John Lennon – this may take a while.

Edit 2/13/2011: I just ran across this post while restoring my database. I remember when I wrote this over six years ago, I took great pride in the fact that if you take the first letter of each sentence backwards, it spells a secret message. I was a tricky kid.

comments (3)

There are 3 comments. Such a lively discussion!

  1. Kyle spoke up on October 15, 2005.

    man that is such a cool topic…
    can i borrow that book when your done (catcher in the rye)

  2. Casey spoke up on October 15, 2005.

    Sure

  3. Mills spoke up on October 15, 2005.

    Catcher in the Rye is tbe greatest piece of literature on this planet.

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