[ExI] difficult (?) puzzle

[William Flynn Wallace]

It's ambiguous, you know.  It could mean 'other than wise' or 'wise in
other ways'.

Never heard Penny Lane, I suppose, but Yesterday comes fairly often.   If I
have a favorite song of theirs, that's it.  That was all Lennon, right?
bill w

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 3:45 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Cc:* William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] difficult (?) puzzle
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> >…The meaning of anything is supplied by the hearer (Existentialism).  I
> did not  know that you were interested in the enigmatic ("What is the sound
> of one hand clapping...?"   "Cl   cl   cl").  And I have not heard that
> Beatles' songs needed interpretation…
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> It doesn’t.  But Beatles songs were persistently interpreted, with
> meanings assigned to them the Beatles never intended.
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> Consider the easy breezy and very literal Penny Lane, with an
> understanding of its time.  The 60s Rock and Roll scene eschewed
> materialism, but those were the early days, when the Fab 4 had been
> struggling musicians, and before they went to India to be guru-ized.  They
> had no heartburn with commercial success.  The Rolling Stones were eating
> their lunch, so the recording company Parlophone urged the boys from
> Liverpool to churn out songs, get them on vinyl, fight back against the
> Stones.
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> McCartney and Lennon lived near Penny Lane, so they wrote a song about the
> sights and sounds from that very literal place.  There really was no deep
> meaning, but it is a nice song, a pleasant ear virus.  You might have
> caught it just from my mentioning the song, and now you can’t get it out of
> your head.
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> Before you read on, do stop thinking about Penny Lane please, and
> concentrate.
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> Later the Beatles’ song (HEY!  Stop thinking about Penny Lane!) Helter
> Skelter was interpreted by a psychopath to lead other psychopaths to mass
> murder.
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> >…  Yesterday, Michelle, a few more (that I have not heard in several
> decades)…
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> Oy now ya done it.  I can’t get the Michelle song outta my head.  Oh well,
> I like that one as much as Penny Lane.
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> >…I see that you are quite a literal person…
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> How can you be sure?  I might be a literal person, or an AI, at which time
> I would be a figurative “person.”
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> >…bill w  (did like 'otherwise')
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> Me too!  No charge for that sir, my pleasure.
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