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...extension of the vin-and-yang imagery is easily made to the cover of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit published this winter. It is a sunny book, almost square in format, though a little wider than long (a la Peanuts). The jacket is chiefly a bright yellow, though at its base is black lettering which claims that the "works and drawings [are] by Yoko Ono," and that the "introduction [is] by John Lennon." A large disc is cut from the yellow, and there in its place is a portrait of Yoko Ono. Black-and-white photograph, it has Yoko's grey...
Within this interchange lies the problem of Grapefruit : is it good...
...ROOMMATE, who is crazy and has done no thinking for better than a year, said of Grapefruit : "It's nothing, so incredibly nothing." A person whom I respect even more said of the book that only someone famous could get away with writing it. In general. then, it squirts. And Grapefruit's problems can mostly be laid on its orientation, which is definitely (almost exclusively) to those of us who are often stoned. Being obviously the work of someone who "must have been stoned" (often). it invites the reader to do likewise and rather effectively excludes the reader who doesn...
Surrounded by such specimens, you stand nude for the weigh-in ceremonies and realize what a wreck you are. Then out of the gymnasium waddles some titan of industry looking like a grapefruit in his gold stretch-nylon sweatsuit. "Hi, tiger!" says Spa Director Ward Hutton. "You've got a good sweat going!" Wearily looking up, the titan mutters, "Hello, muscles." Suddenly you don't feel embarrassed any more...
...faint, (a) Keep painting until you die. (b) Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it out into the sea with flowers." And don't ask why. Yoko One's soon-to-be-published "book of instructions," entitled Grapefruit, carries a little poetry and a lot of put-on. Critics and admirers alike are enjoined to "Burn this book after you've read it." "This," claims Pre-Reviewer John Lennon on the dust jacket, "is the greatest book I've ever burned...