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boek van John Lennon
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Buch von John Lennon
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In His Own Write
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].
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.
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.
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
Left: The English writer Lewis Carroll, whose wordplay influenced John Lennon's writing style
Right: The American cartoonist James Thurber, whose cartoons Lennon began imitating when he was a teenager
The cover of the book, featuring a picture of John Lennon
Livro de John Lennon
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– John Lennon, 1971
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* Literary nonsense * surreal poetry
– John Lennon on In His Own Write, 1964
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– John Lennon reflecting on writing "I Am the Walrus", 1980
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Lewis Caroll
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1964 novel by John Lennon
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