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Pink Floyd.’ No I didn’t do that! Gerry came up to me
and said: ‘Can you help me? I like your line.’ And so
I said: ‘Why don’t I introduce you to my art teacher?
Leslie Richardson.’ Whose daughter Lucy by the way,
is Lucy from ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’. They
lived in Weybridge and that’s where John Lennon used
to go into their antique shop with Julian. And John used
to come in there and Lucy was always playing with
lovely old bits of antique jewellery, they were sparkling
things and Julian liked them. And that’s when he
thought ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’, that lovely
song. It doesn’t detract that LSD became part of it.
She was only 47 and I went to her funeral about four
months ago because she died, and her mother Lesley
said a really nice positive thing to say: ‘She had a good
life. I couldn’t stop her dying…’ You know but … She
was in film, she worked on all sorts of things, on Lord
Of The Rings and was doing very well. A lovely lady.
And everyone had to drink pink champagne at her
funeral. ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ was played
in the church, it was lovely.
What sort of music have you been into?
The Grateful Dead of course. I loved Eric Clapton.
And Chet Baker the trumpet player. And I loved
Dvorak and loved listening to William Burroughs and
Allen Ginsberg reading to music. And I’ll even listen
to Gyorgy Legeti. I’ll tell you what he wrote was the
theme for 2001. He was a modern composer who then
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just went off into all sorts of weird stuff.
I was thinking of ‘Thus Spoke Zarathrustra’ but
that was Strauss. You like Nietzsche don’t you?
Yeah I do. There’s another guy called Max Stirner
who wrote some very radical things about politics.
He wrote a book called The Ego And Its Own. I don’t
know whether I can find it here … [Sounds of shuffling
through papers] … Yes he’s German. The Ego And Its
Own, Max Stirner:
Question: What does man believe in?
Answer: I believe in myself, the answer of the common
soldier.
Question: What is the principal of the self-concious
egotist?
Answer: Change the question to who instead of what
and name the individual. Man is the horizon or zero of
my existence as an individual. Over that I rise as I can,
at least I am something more than man in general. A
somebody rather than a nobody.
Stirner dispels morbid subjection and recognise each
one who knows and feels himself as his own property,
to be neither humble nor be fobbed but henceforth sure
footed and level headed. A mist of this body who has a
character and good pleasure of his/her own, just as he
has of his/her own.
This is not transcendental generality. This is the
transitory ego of flesh and blood. You and I cannot be
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