It's about nothing. If you like it, you like it; if you don't, you don't. That's all there is to it. There's nothing deep in it, it's just meant to be funny. I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pocket. When I have enough, I have a book.
존 레논의 책
ספר מאת ג'ון לנון
– John Lennon, 1971
libro de John Lennon
The cover of the book, featuring a picture of John Lennon
United Kingdom
그 자신의 이야기
– John Lennon on In His Own Write, 1964
Left: The English writer Lewis Carroll, whose wordplay influenced John Lennon's writing style
You just stick a few images together, thread them together, and you call it poetry. But I was just using the mind that wrote In His Own Write to write that song.
James Thurber NYWTS.jpg
First edition
In His Own Write
Buch von John Lennon
книга
1964 novel by John Lennon
Right: The American cartoonist James Thurber, whose cartoons Lennon began imitating when he was a teenager
* Literary nonsense * surreal poetry
– John Lennon reflecting on writing "I Am the Walrus", 1980
novelë
En flagrant délire
right
boek van John Lennon
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I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from [my aunt] Mimi [Smith].
Livro de John Lennon
I really didn't think the book would even get reviewed by the book reviewers... I didn't think people would accept the book like they did. To tell you the truth they took the book more seriously than I did myself. It just began as a laugh for me.
– John Lennon, 1964
كتاب من تأليف جون لينون
romant
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livre de John Lennon
James Thurber
På eget sätt
Lewis Carroll 1863.jpg
Lewis Caroll