Norbert
2024-03-29 12:30:11 UTC
Aboard the plane, flying home from India, John began drinking hard liquor for the first time in months. As the booze melted his inhibitions, the rage that lay at the bottom of his soul, like sulfuric acid under a wax stopper, began to fume up. For no apparent reason, he started telling Cynthia about all the women he had f*cked during the eight years of their marriage. The hundreds of girls John had screwed on the road, as many as seven in a single night, counted for little in his confessions. What he concentrated upon, according to Peter Brown, were the women whom Cynthia would recognize. Then he got down to women whom Cynthia knew personally, explaining that the reason this one turned up unexpectedly that night at Kenwood or that one behaved so oddly in the restaurant was that John was carrying on with her behind Cynthia's back. Whether his motive in making this confession was to goad Cynthia into suing for a divorce or to punish her for some real or imagined indiscretion makes little difference; the fact is that he hurt her horribly without helping himself one bit.
-- Albert Goldman
Goldman goes on to describe a drug binge -- including acid, weed, pills, whiskey, cocaine and heroin -- John embarked on immediately upon returning home. It was during this bender that John made a fool of himself in the presence of his onetime idol Brigitte Bardot. The episode culminated in John consummating his relationship with Yoko -- and deciding that he would live with her from then on.
-- Albert Goldman
Goldman goes on to describe a drug binge -- including acid, weed, pills, whiskey, cocaine and heroin -- John embarked on immediately upon returning home. It was during this bender that John made a fool of himself in the presence of his onetime idol Brigitte Bardot. The episode culminated in John consummating his relationship with Yoko -- and deciding that he would live with her from then on.