Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WRITE, by John Lennon. The oldest Beatle ("He's the arty one") explains his startling collection of post-Joycean jabberwocky: "As far as I'm conceived this correction of short writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've ever ready." His readers shrdlu...
...were so hobby to see your lublyrebue on Beatle John Lennon's writty [May 1]. We all considerate quite a good larf, you know, and think John vary cleaver...
...passage is from a playlet called At the Denis. It indicates, however, that Lennon may be capable of putting some sense into the gorbles of his readers; certainly it is logical to assume that if a Sir says "alas," a Madam might say "alad...
Besides playlets, Lennon provides teasingly evocative dramatic fragments. Sample: "Roger could visualise Anne in her flowing weddy drag, being wheeled up the aisle, smiling a blessing. He had butterfield in his stomarce as he fastened his bough tie and brushed his hairs. 'I hope I'm doing the right thing,' he thought looking in the mirror. 'Am I good enough for her?' Roger need not have worried because he was. 'Should I have flowers all round the spokes?' said Anne polishing her foot rest. 'Or should I keep it syble...
...been set by a drunken Linotypist, and often defies being read aloud. In His Own Write is a hit in England, where it is quoted at tea tables and praised in the Times Literary Supplement ("worth the attention of anyone who fears for the impoverishment of the English language"). Lennon simply says that he enjoys writing and admits only to a small debt to Lewis Carroll: "It just comes out. I sit down and write and this is what happens." The T.L.S. glurbles: "He must write a great deal more." If Lennon does have the stomarce for more writing, perhaps...