"hey how are things"
my brain: when Paul McCartney turned 80 did he think about how he'd lived twice as long as John Lennon did he mourn the fact that he'd lived two of John's lifetimes and only one of them had included John and only for a little more than half the time and two years before that it was the 40th anniversary of John's death he's been dead longer than he lived and that was 2020 and was Paul alone with his family on his farm thinking about this is it in McCartney ||| is that the Deep Deep Feeling did he get married on John's birthday because it's just too painful to think this way
me: yeah, good
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I saw the love of my life today
pretty girl...
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BUT HONESTLY
the narrative significance
of two pairs of people:
who both, having once had a close, trusting relationship:
becoming, at some point (past or present), divided:
with one having saved others and risked their life only to sway precariously from a height:
while the other watches and believes them to be dead:
only to learn they are alive:
and warmly reconcile their differences:
one is a clear romantic pairing and the other is...?
also a romantic pairing, that’s what
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Monarchy easily becomes despotic, but democracy breeds despotism more easily still.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835)
Happy Treason Day, my dear American friends.
You ungrateful colonials.
John Adams, America's first ambassador, is granted an audience with HM King George III (HBO John Adams).
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Chapter 5: Chasing Beauty
In Chapter 5 of "Here, There and Everywhere" (Book III of Carry that Weight) George Martin gives the McCartney songs on Revolver a good listening to, ("Only someone who has known a private agony and has thought about all the deep and quiet ways people suffer could have written Eleanor Rigby," he thought...)
He and John Lennon argue about another take for Revolver, while Paul's maturing compositions leave both of them studying his work with something like awe.
And John remembers something very frustrating, and very sexy...
So....
This is may be the first time I've had to interrupt myself in mid-chapter, but I have to. The thing was supposed to be about 8,000 words long -- 6,000 of them absolute SLASH -- but something has come up this week that is challenging and so (because I don't want to go too long between chapters) here is the first part of that chapter, which is mostly an atmospheric, "backgrounder." We are somewhere in May of 1966 and the boys are still recording Revolver, prepping for a tour none of them really want to do, and the "bigger than Jesus" stuff hasn't yet blown up, although that's coming. For the sake of the story I have not held perfectly to the recording dates of all the songs.
PLEASE NOTE: this chapter was supposed to end with an epic bit of slash -- about 4,000 words of it -- but I have decided to put that off until next week, when I can write it with a clear head, as this week has.... challenges.
So... I hope it doesn't bore you -- and be ready for the UTTER PSYCHOSEXUAL SLASH that will be chapter 6, which will simply be called: "Wales, Summer, 1961."
For now... Here is Chapter 5, "Chasing Beauty."
It's short, but I hope you like it.
(Oh, no, I wasn't making a joke, Paul....)
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Worlds Collide #1 (July 1994) by Milestone and DC Comics
Written by Robert L. Washington III and Dwayne McDuffie, drawn by Chris Batista, Mark Bright, Chriscross, Denys Cowan, Tom Grummett and John Paul Leon.
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Static #7
by Robert L. Washington III, John Paul Leon and Rober Quijano
DC/Milestone
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