Reply #12: Well, you decide: "He's a f**king bastard-thats what he turns out to be."

[lib_wit_it]

It's from The Walrus and the Carpenter, Alice In Wonderland. To me, it was a beautiful poem. It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system. I never went into that bit about what it really meant, like people are doing with The Beatles' work. Later I went back and looked at it and realized that the Walrus was the bad guy in the story, and the Carpenter was the good guy, I thought, 'Oh shit, I've picked the wrong guy.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it? I am the Carpenter...'(JL1980)

We saw the movie in L.A. and the Walrus was a big capitalist that ate all the f**king oysters. I always had the image of the Walrus in the garden and I loved it, and so I didn't ever check what the Walrus was. He's a f**king bastard-thats what he turns out to be. But the way it's written, everybody presumes that means something. I mean even I did. We all just presumed that because I said 'I Am The Walrus' that it means 'I Am God' or something. It's just poetry, but it became symbolic of me (JL1970)."


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