Post by Doc on Oct 3, 2005 3:27:25 GMT -5
My good friend and colleague, Perplexed, (we're just exactly alike....)
has given me a fresh idea about exploring the individual personnas of the Sargeant Pepper cover. Who were/are those people?
It seems, on first glance, that they all had very cultivated, very "stylized" public personna. Certainly, I think most of us hold very specific ideas about most of them, the ones that we are familiar with, anyway.
I've been over to the Wikipedia a bit recently, so sorry to admit that I'll be relying on that resource a lot at first. Once I've laid a clever foundation, I'll spread out into other areas like badly mixed concrete.
Hopefully, in this thread, we'll begin performing a certain mental excercise known as "ratiocination", which the free dictionary describes thusly:
www.thefreedictionary.com/ratiocination
and google says:
www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&q=define:Ratiocination
I start with these, Poe, Carroll, and W.C. Fields.
These articles are a nice beginning:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
who liked to make these:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charades
It is said that he also enjoyed abusing this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudanum
And, concerning, W.C. Fields:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._C._Fields
So, we have a little "wiki-peep" into Fields, Poe, and Carroll. So many stimulating connections. I have no conclusions about those connections just yet, just suffice it that I find certain considerations in their life stories to run a parallel here and there with the Beatle's story.
Hmmmm.....
Read and see what you think. I think we can take these three men a little more in depth in follow-up posts.
Soon to post: Diana Dors, Mae West, and Judy Garland.
One iddy-biddy connection I can make mention of here is that so far, all 6 celebrated ones I have named were known by pseudonyms. The back stories on how and why they acquired their new names are interesting.
I asked Perplexed what he thought about such arrangements with nomenclature, and he replied, "I B AKA with that."
U can C that I was rather taken ABAK by his position, if only from the way it was spelled out.
I asked him, "Y?" He replied, "O". Together, we said a collective "Yo." Further:
"Realize this," he intoned quixotically, "I always thought I had the perfect last name, until the next one came along..."
Currently, he says, for his next moniker, he is toying with the idea of using "Ruy Blas", but laments the fact that he'll first have to petition the Queen of Spain.
Mr. Hugo could not be reached for comment.
How will that make Perplexed feel?
Probab-LAY miserab...................................................bluh.
Boo and hiss all you want. I'm not even sorry.
has given me a fresh idea about exploring the individual personnas of the Sargeant Pepper cover. Who were/are those people?
It seems, on first glance, that they all had very cultivated, very "stylized" public personna. Certainly, I think most of us hold very specific ideas about most of them, the ones that we are familiar with, anyway.
I've been over to the Wikipedia a bit recently, so sorry to admit that I'll be relying on that resource a lot at first. Once I've laid a clever foundation, I'll spread out into other areas like badly mixed concrete.
Hopefully, in this thread, we'll begin performing a certain mental excercise known as "ratiocination", which the free dictionary describes thusly:
www.thefreedictionary.com/ratiocination
and google says:
www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&q=define:Ratiocination
I start with these, Poe, Carroll, and W.C. Fields.
These articles are a nice beginning:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
who liked to make these:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charades
It is said that he also enjoyed abusing this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudanum
And, concerning, W.C. Fields:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._C._Fields
So, we have a little "wiki-peep" into Fields, Poe, and Carroll. So many stimulating connections. I have no conclusions about those connections just yet, just suffice it that I find certain considerations in their life stories to run a parallel here and there with the Beatle's story.
Hmmmm.....
Read and see what you think. I think we can take these three men a little more in depth in follow-up posts.
Soon to post: Diana Dors, Mae West, and Judy Garland.
One iddy-biddy connection I can make mention of here is that so far, all 6 celebrated ones I have named were known by pseudonyms. The back stories on how and why they acquired their new names are interesting.
I asked Perplexed what he thought about such arrangements with nomenclature, and he replied, "I B AKA with that."
U can C that I was rather taken ABAK by his position, if only from the way it was spelled out.
I asked him, "Y?" He replied, "O". Together, we said a collective "Yo." Further:
"Realize this," he intoned quixotically, "I always thought I had the perfect last name, until the next one came along..."
Currently, he says, for his next moniker, he is toying with the idea of using "Ruy Blas", but laments the fact that he'll first have to petition the Queen of Spain.
Mr. Hugo could not be reached for comment.
How will that make Perplexed feel?
Probab-LAY miserab...................................................bluh.
Boo and hiss all you want. I'm not even sorry.