He thought this might be a good time to change the subject. “Would you like to have a coffee?”<\/p>\n
“Why yes,” she said, “I would.” They ducked into a charmingly grungy East Village coffee shop.<\/p>\n
After the coffees arrived, she noticed he was staring into his mug, as though there was something he wanted to say. “What’s up?” she asked.<\/p>\n
“Nothing serious, just a little thing,” he shrugged. “Not sure I should even mention it.”<\/p>\n
“It’s ok,” she said. “Honesty is not one of the things I’m scared of.”<\/p>\n
“Well, I was just thinking. John didn’t write ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ — Paul did. So it’s really Paul who should get the credit for bringing pataphysics to the masses.”<\/p>\n
“Hmm,” she said. “Technically yes, but do you really think Paul would even have known a word like ‘pataphysical’ if not for John? Lennon was in bed with the art avant guarde<\/i>, and I mean that literally.”<\/p>\n
“You mean Yoko, right?”<\/p>\n
“Yes, quite. Ono was at the top of her game, a leading light of the Fluxus movement. She was changing the very face of art itself, a true heir to Alfred Jarry. Then she goes and weds beneath her station. Royalty marrying a commoner — a pop singer, no less. Imagine the scandal!”<\/p>\n
“You have an unusual perspective on things,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Would you rather collaborate with someone who had a usual perspective on things?”<\/p>\n
“No,” he replied emphatically, “I would not.”<\/p>\n
“Which brings up a question,” she said, leaning forward. “What will this musical of ours be about?”<\/p>\n
“The same thing,” he said, “that all musicals are about.”<\/p>\n
“And that is?”<\/p>\n
“Relationships.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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