December 8th, 2010
Every op-ed page publishes embarrassing stuff from time to time–it’s hard to fill that many inches, 365 days a year, without some mistakes.
Even so.
Don’t miss this dandy from the NYT’s Yoko Ono essay. Yoko manages to be self-important, sub-literate, and preposterous all at the same time. For instance:
“The most important gift we received from him was not words, but deeds.”
But those words were real doozies. Because “He believed in Truth, and had dared to speak up.”
So his words were really important. Or maybe, in the mouth of John Lennon, words actually were deeds.
And because of his word-deeds, “We all knew that he upset certain powerful people . . .”
Perhaps it was these powerful people who had John not murdered but–in Yoko’s word-deed–“assassinated.”
Also, John and Yoko made tea together once. With their cats.
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