Word: daydreaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Story of the Magical Mystery Tour," printed inside the album, says on page nine, "Meanwhile PAUL BEGINS TO DAYDREAM. His thoughts fly FAR AWAY. He is standing high up on a warm, grassy hill... SUDDENLY Paul's day-dreaming is over." And the songs on the album include "Strawberry Fields Forever" ("I buried Paul") and "I Am the Walrus." The latter song ends with a quote from King Lear- "Is he dead? Sit you down, father, rest you" -and includes, according to LaBour, "the radio broadcast that never took place announcing Paul's death to the world...
...Historian Max Nomad believes that anarchists follow a "daydream of desperate romantics." Man's urge to do away with the apparatus that governs him is obviously almost as old as government itself. It is, perhaps, the ultimate Utopia-the idea of a community totally without constraint. Zeno, founder of the ancient Greek school of Stoic thought and anarchism's earliest forerunner, opposed Plato's ideal of state communism in favor of his own vision of a free community without government. Medieval Christianity was full of individualist sects that held that man's laws necessarily interfere with...
...Private No-Class Harry Frigg, who is so unskillful at concealing his contempt for the World War II brass that he is constantly being thrown into the stockade for insulting officers. But he is just as constantly escaping, which leads to the fulfillment of a dogface's daydream: instant promotion to two-star general...
...Jessie," says a boy friend, "you're like a philosopher in reverse. You're a walking daydream." So she is. She writes herself letters at work ("Dear Madame: Hi"), puts them in her In basket ("Oh, look, a letter for me") and answers them ("Dear Madame: Hi. Glorious morning, isn't it?"). She plays games with herself such as How Can That Be?, in which she makes up an impossible situation, asks herself "How can that be?" and is disappointed if she cannot concoct a way it could be. She is unable to explain, for instance...
...GAME, by Julio Cortazar. Fifteen eerie stories, among them the brief vignette that ballooned into the movie Blow-Up. All of them deal with today's fashionable fictional hang-ups: Did it happen or didn't it? Is this a daydream or a nightmare...