Posted on 08/27/2014 6:25:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Um, that "He" would be John Warnock Hinckley, Jr., who aspired to murder a far more significant individual than John Lennon, who admittedly was a fine musician.
There was an article on here a few years ago about John Lennon’s politics evolving and how he admired and respected Reagan (who was not yet President at the time). I believe it because I believe Lennon was a malleable type of person who really didn’t know exactly what he believed. I believe he was somewhat ignorant of how the world works yet wanted to appear as a sophisticate. Hence why he seemed such a hypocrite to someone like Chapman.
In reference to your moniker, perhaps if only Chapman would have been a fan of Fitzgerald and looked to run over a low class whore he would have killed Yoko instead... :-)
As an aside, I never found Salinger to be that brilliant of a writer. He only wrote a couple of novels that I can remember (Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey) and lots of short stories for the New Yorker. I thought Catcher in the Rye was good, but don’t rave about it like so many others.
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