meta [part the second]

[John Carvill]

> Downstream from Chandler's writing we get .....

I know. My point, all along has been: we know.

>  My example of =20
"Strawberry Fields" just might clarify things.

I don't think it does, no.

<< The single we all know =20=

and love is a collaborative effort. George Martin had a big hand in =20
the final product. A lot of what we think of as Lennon's song is =20
Martin's score, the work of a very clear-headed man with considerable =20=

knowledge of orchestration. >>

Well, maybe not as collaborative as you imply. The story of the song's
creation is, of course, very well known. As is George Martin's role in
the Beatles' records in general.

> I hear the song as self-therapy=97Lennon =20
accesses his younger self,

In part, yes. That's why I said previously that the song was as much
(if not more) fuelled by nostalgia as by drugs.

<< It's Lennon's initial vision that created the =20
song, it's George Martin's orchestration that makes it "psychedelic."  >>

Sorry, but this is simply wrong.

<< I'm not saying that Pynchon sat at his =20
typewriter tripping to produce GR, but I am saying that many passages =20=

of the book simply would not have happened in the absence of LSD. >>

Well, yes. We agree on that.