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FROM TWO ISLANDS, off each of the rims of Eurasia, from England and Japan, came John and Yoko together in union. The mighty figuring in their alliance of the images of east-west yin-and-yang accounts for much of the couple's hold on the consciousness of what has been called "our generation...
...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...
...droppings of a group of freshmen sitting one night around an ash tray. They are stoned and each now and then utters things which are astounding in their insight. OH-WOW's abound; each is fascinated with each one's wit; life becomes a trip of insights. In Yoko's book, these insights are called pieces; they are grouped into sections ; and, small wonder, the sections together are termed Grapefruit . Moreover, each piece is of the type so common to stone sessions: the instruction . The instruction is the message one pens to oneself when stoned. It is invariably a great...
...Head books are best when, like the OZ books, they are written not with heads in mind. Straight things ought always to be preferred by heads; and those things consciously stoney, like black lights and day-glo or the present music of the Doors, ought ever to be shunned. Yoko is stoned, all through her book, and one wishes quite often that she would think, instead, in the world's terms...
...STILL, Yoko is acknowledged as a wit, and we must acknowledge what it is that makes her great. (1) Originally, she was, like you and me, a nobody. But she happened to realize early what you and I are realizing now: something, you know, about how the world's freaky, and feed-your-head, and expand-your-mind, and you-too-can-be-creative, and just-get-stoned-enough-and-you'll-be-stoned-all-the-time. (2) In 1963, the year Kennedy died, the Beatles burst on the scene. We thought they were going to be just another rock...