Not Pynchon just paranoia

[Laura Kelber]

My sister's more sophisticated (if 9-year-olds can be called that) friends
all went for John and, later that year, they were the oddball few who
preferred Napoleon Solo to Ilya Kuryakin.

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> LOL Laura!   Yes!
>
> I was barely 16 years old and the Beatles were just brand new - very early
> 1964 - we’d heard the music at the dances before they got to Ed Sullivan.
>  I had 3 really good girlfriends and we divided them up.   I would have no
> one but Ringo,  but that’s okay since the others had their own picks.   I
> still remember -  Rachel took John,  Susie took Paul and Robin took
> George.  It just worked out that way.
>
> Becky
> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
>
> > On May 12, 2017, at 8:23 AM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The Fab Four are the defining example of synergy.
> >
> > By the way, I agree with all that's been said about Paul, though it
> personally pains me, because I have a crushing responsibility to defend him.
> >
> > When I was about 7, my big sister laid out four black-and-white Beatle
> bubble-gum cards (no bubble-gum in the deal), and said: "These are the
> Beatles. You have to pick which one you like." I looked them over and
> pointed to George. "Uh-uh. He's mine. Pick another." So I chose Paul, and
> I've tried to be (Wings?? Ebony and Ivory???) as faithful as I can ever
> since.
> >
> > Laura
> >
> > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:07 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "PM's simplicity to the point of idiocy (combined with what seems like a
> savant-like sense of melody and pop structure), innocence to the point of
> ignorance, aren't really compelling on their own”
> >
> > Teff, you just made a friend for life.
> >
> >> On May 11, 2017, at 6:52 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Could be said for all four post breakup
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:48 PM Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> To me PM's simplicity to the point of idiocy (combined with what seems
> like a savant-like sense of melody and pop structure), innocence to the
> point of ignorance, aren't really compelling on their own, but in the
> presence of the others and their qualities/influence sometimes gets
> elevated to something profound or even divine. See "A Day in the Life,"
> maybe the best pop song ever because of how perfectly it illustrates and
> alchemizes the basic JL/PM differences. But the more distance between him
> and the rest of The Beatles, the less he rewards my attention.
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 4:18 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Wings: “If I ever get out of here, I’m giving it all away”
> >>
> >> But I suppose Gilmore falls in there too. Should mention that my middle
> name is Lennon. That’s the L in the JLguuch. Possibly created some bias at
> birth.
> >>
> >>> On May 11, 2017, at 2:26 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thought the Rutles wrote that one
> >>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:18 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> I seem to remember that Ringo wrote Money.
> >>>
> >>> 2017-05-11 18:12 GMT+02:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> >>> Yep.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:08 AM Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> I would kinda like to smoke the dude who sang about “givin’ it all
> away” and then charged $400 for tix in the nosebleed section at his
> concerts.
> >>> The cool Beatles are dead.
> >>> Just sayin.
> >>>
> >>> On 5/10/17, 2:01 PM, "owner-pynchon-l at waste.org on behalf of Thomas
> Eckhardt" <owner-pynchon-l at waste.org on behalf of
> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     On 10.05.17 19:48, rich wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     > So who killed Paul?
> >>>
> >>>     Ringo.
> >>>     -
> >>>     Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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