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A Spaniard in the Works

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Asked in an interview about his "sick" humour, Lennon linked it to his school days, while also saying, "If it makes people sick, they're sick. It doesn't appear sick to me". Reflecting on the length of his Sherlock Holmes parody, Lennon said "t seemed like a novel to me", and that he "wrote so many
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in terms of both writing style and length, some of the book's pieces run for five or six pages, including the Sherlock Holmes parody "The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield", which runs nine pages. The book has 56 pieces, including twelve prose pieces, six poems and 38 drawings. A piece
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writes that the book was more hastily written than Lennon's first book, yet also more ambitious, with much more wordplay and more genre parodies. He writes that "etonating conformity was one of the few themes Lennon's pen mastered", though his drawings were more elegant in conveying "emotional
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in May 1964. Harrison, Boyd and Cynthia contributed lines, with Lennon sometimes inquiring of them for words that would work better in a particular sentence. During the same holiday, Lennon occupied himself by reading the books left on their private boat, including a complete set of
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became an immediate best seller, going through four printings in its first four months and ultimately selling over 100,000 copies. Critically, reviewers were generally unenthusiastic, considering the book similar to
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Professor of English Ian Marshall describes Lennon's prose as "mad wordplay", noting Lewis Carroll's influence on his writing style and suggesting the book anticipates the lyrics of Lennon's later songs, including
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The book includes numerous references to racial minorities, as well as characters with deformities and disabilities. The title piece, for example, opens: "Jesus El Pifco was a foreigner and he knew it
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describes the book as a "more warped compendium" than its predecessor, and that the satiric piece "The General Erection" proved that Lennon "had a little more political nous than he let on". Critic
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was the last collection of Lennon's writing published in his lifetime. Lennon began writing a third collection, planned for release in February 1966, but abandoned the project soon after.
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The second book was more disciplined because it was started from scratch. They said, "You've got so many months to write a book in." I wrote
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Sales of the book were lower than Lennon's first book, with 100,000 copies bought in the three months following publication.
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Marshall, Ian (2006). "'I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together': Bakhtin and the Beatles". In
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recalled Lennon writing some of the book in Paris in January 1964 – predating the 23 March 1964 publication of
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The Literary Lennon: A Comedy of Letters: The First Study of All the Major and Minor Writings of John Lennon
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Wood, Michael (2004). "John Lennon's schooldays". In Thomson, Elizabeth; Gutman, David (eds.).
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stories. Recognising the formula the stories employed, he spent three weeks writing a parody.
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Northcutt, William M. (2006). "The Spectacle of Alienation: Death, Loss, and the Crowd in
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Describing its parodies as forced, author Jonathan Gould opines that the writing of
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Burns, Gary (2009). "Beatles news: product line extensions and the rock canon". In
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published a posthumous collection of Lennon writings in 1986. The collection,
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published the lone completed poem, "The Toy Boy", in its December 1966 issue.
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of the boy demonstrates Lennon's conflicted feelings regarding crowds.
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The 30th Annual John Lennon Tribute: Live from the Beacon Theatre, NYC
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recalled Lennon writing while the two holidayed with their partners,
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Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
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Harris, John (2004b). "Syntax Man". In Trynka, Paul (ed.).
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The cover of the book, featuring a picture of John Lennon
John Lennon
Literary nonsense
Surreal poetry
Jonathan Cape
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In His Own Write
Skywriting by Word of Mouth
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In His Own Write
In His Own Write
In His Own Write
Johnnie Walker
John Lennon
John Lennon
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George Harrison
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