Norbert K
2023-11-14 12:14:06 UTC
Yoko's tarot card reader, John Green, says he had the following exchange with a depressed John Lennon shortly after John returned to Yoko and the Dakota. Green prompted John, telling him, "You are what's happening":
Lennon: Happening? Not anymore. Even in the old days, I wasn't really important. Do you know that when I met Yoko, she didn't even know what a 'Beatle' was?
Green: Yes, I've heard that story, but I never believed it. I know men who were cloistered monks at that time, and even they knew who the Beatles were. I think that was just Yoko's way of telling you that she was so busy with "real" art and "real" culture that she never noticed your scene. I think you believed her because under all your bravado and surface confidence, you have a very poor sense of self-worth. She told you that you were unimportant and you accepted it because you secretly beleved it, so much so that you gave away half your hard-earned position to someone whose major talent was giving you her undivided attention.
Lennon: I just love the way you reduce everything to simple statements.
-- Summarized & quoted from John Green's book Dakota Days
Lennon: Happening? Not anymore. Even in the old days, I wasn't really important. Do you know that when I met Yoko, she didn't even know what a 'Beatle' was?
Green: Yes, I've heard that story, but I never believed it. I know men who were cloistered monks at that time, and even they knew who the Beatles were. I think that was just Yoko's way of telling you that she was so busy with "real" art and "real" culture that she never noticed your scene. I think you believed her because under all your bravado and surface confidence, you have a very poor sense of self-worth. She told you that you were unimportant and you accepted it because you secretly beleved it, so much so that you gave away half your hard-earned position to someone whose major talent was giving you her undivided attention.
Lennon: I just love the way you reduce everything to simple statements.
-- Summarized & quoted from John Green's book Dakota Days