"One Night, John, Julian and I were watching Jesus of Nazareth on television and John began working himself up into a tirade against Christianity, saying that it had virtually destroyed what was left of pagan culture and spirituality in Europe -- agreat loss to civilization. 'I'm a born-again pagan,' John said, with pleasure at the turn of phrase. Julian looked at him, puzzled at first, and then aghast, as John kept saying, 'Let's have the main event, let's get to the Crucifixion already!'
"Needless to say, it was edited out."
-- from The Last Days of John Lennon
On 27/07/2022 1:02 am, Norbert K wrote:great loss to civilization. 'I'm a born-again pagan,' John said, with pleasure at the turn of phrase. Julian looked at him, puzzled at first, and then aghast, as John kept saying, 'Let's have the main event, let's get to the Crucifixion already!'
"One Night, John, Julian and I were watching Jesus of Nazareth on television and John began working himself up into a tirade against Christianity, saying that it had virtually destroyed what was left of pagan culture and spirituality in Europe -- a
"Needless to say, it was edited out."
-- from The Last Days of John LennonDubious.
"Let's get to the Crucifixion already!" - that bizarre misuse of words
(not to mention gross anomaly in the time-space continuum) is a
recent(?) USA linguistic 'innovation' that no Brit would be seen or
heard dead using.
geoff
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