Quotes
9 DECEMBER 1980
The radio says John Lennon is dead … A lump of my past has been removed. No, maybe more firmly placed. If you look for it, and even like today when you don’t, life will tell you things. Last night some theatre awards were shown on TV and I wanted one of them—but with my teeth and fingernails I wanted out. John Lennon’s death hits much harder and lower. Just now it seems senseless—let it not be a waste. (I don’t want to be forever observing my own feelings like this—but he had the same groans: ‘How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?’)
The radio says John Lennon is dead … A lump of my past has been removed. No, maybe more firmly placed. If you look for it, and even like today when you don’t, life will tell you things. Last night some theatre awards were shown on TV and I wanted one of them—but with my teeth and fingernails I wanted out. John Lennon’s death hits much harder and lower. Just now it seems senseless—let it not be a waste. (I don’t want to be forever observing my own feelings like this—but he had the same groans: ‘How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?’)
We finished with everyone singing ‘The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore’. Then, in keeping with tradition, the Reverend Richard Syms asked us to give Alan ‘one last wonderful standing ovation’.
RIMA HORTON
RIMA HORTON
One of those days – a bit too tiring – vaguely stressful – I’m always surprised at how easily I can buy into that instead of working against it. It’s the dog with a slipper syndrome.
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