Saw your post on John Lennon. Thought I'd tell you a true story. I had a girl friend from NYC and we were there on New Years Eve 1975. She was from a wealthy art family, and one of their college mates was having a party at the Dakota. The schoolmate lived next to John Lennon, and lo he and Yoko came to the party. My girl friend's father (Sidney, a sculptor) had met John when John was looking for a place to live. So Sidney and I were talking in the hall just when John and Yoko left to get in the Dakota elevator. They'd only recently had the kid.
Sidney amicably said: How's the kid? (a lesson to me - people, including famous ones, are happy to talk about their kids).
Says John: "Oh, well. but it's a lot of work.
"We havent hired a nanny yet. We cant get out at all! Even to buy a paper!"
To which I said "That's good!"
You see I was immediately hooked by this picture of the great man stuck with the kid.
He shot me a straight eyeball look when I said 'that's good' and he, as the elevator door closed, with a smile, chewing gum, retorted "You think so, do you?"
Which I found out later was a very typical thing for him to say.
So I think I had a an effect on the next stage of his career, the one the guy describes in the below story. This is a nice piece, as you say, and this quote in time of Covid, so valuable.
"There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely."
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