901

LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS
by
The Beatles

Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.

{REFRAIN}
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah... Ah...

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you're gone.

{REFRAIN}
Lucy in the sky with diamonds ...

Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile,
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

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Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds ...

SO WISELY, I BUY THE GIRL DIAMONDS
Wrinkly Mick

I sing with the Stones yet this tune is by Lennon,
A writer for whom I've a healthy respect,
Now he is dead, yes, yet I am still rollin',
A wrinkly rock-god of sex.

Girls still lust for me, yet not for the wealth,
Leastwise it's what they all say,
So what happens when I lose my wow-appeal,
When it goes ...?

{REFRAIN}
Lucky I can buy the girl diamonds
Lucky I can buy the girl diamonds
Lucky I can buy the girl diamonds
Hee...He...

Follow her down to the Tiffany counter
To fish out the dosh while she picks out a stone
Everyone smiles as you pass the display stands
With prices that cause you to groan.
Newspaper writers appear in the store
Eager to eye your new maiden,
Dash out the back-door and into a car
And you're gone.

{REFRAIN}
Lucky I can buy the girl diamonds...
Hee... He...

Followed and worshipped in towns that I visit
I bed any young girl when I so require
Someone says, "Hey, take a look in the mirror,"
Aw shit, I look wrinkled and tired.

{REFRAIN}
Lucky I can buy the girl diamonds...
Hee... He...

902

WHO ARE YOU?

Composed by the guitarist Peter Dennis Townshend, the song is the title cut on The Who's "Who Are You," the last album released before the death of ill-fated drummer Keith John Moon from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. The hard-rocking song became one of the British band's biggest and greatest American hits, jumping to number fourteen in the U.S. Billboard charts.

Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?

I woke up in a Soho doorway
A policeman knew my name
He said you can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away

I staggered back to the underground
And the breeze blew back my hair
I remember throwin' punches around
And preachin' from my chair

Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Tell me, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Cause I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

I took the tube back out of town
Back to the rollin' pin
I felt a little like a dying clown
With a streak of Rin Tin Tin

I stretched back and I hiccupped
And looked back on my busy day
Eleven hours in the tin pan
God, there's got to be another way

Who are you?
Ooh wa ooh wa ooh wa ooh wa ...

Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?

I know there's a place you walked
Where love falls from the trees
My heart is like a broken cup
I only feel right on my knees

I spit out like a sewer hole
Yet still receive your kiss
How can I measure up to anyone now
After such a love as this?

Just a short postscript: The album version includes an extra verse compared to the much shorter single. Additionally, a "lost verse" mix of the song was released on the very recent reissue of "Who Are You," with a completely different second verse:

I used to check my reflection
Jumping with my cheap guitar
I must have lost my direction,
Cause I ended up a superstar

One night I was in the boardroom
Affected by the human race
You can learn from my mistakes,
But you're posing in the glass again.

WHO ARE YOU? is the theme music for the hit CBS show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," an Emmy Award-winning television series that follows a team of Las Vegas forensic scientists as they unearth the venomous, posthumous details behind unusual, kinky deaths and cryptic, murky denouements.

(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

Dr. Gilbert Arthur "Gil" Grissom, Ph.D. (William Petersen): Our crack night shift team supervisor with a degree in biology from UCLA. [Note: Thinker. Workaholic. With credibility.]

(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger): The keen blood (hemorrhage?) spatter analyst. Knockout is a second-in-command appointee. [Note: Unobtrusively beauteous face. Toothsome ex-stripper.]

(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan): The funky audio-video analyst cum authenticator. [Note: A former "unlucky" gambler.]

(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

Nicholas "Nick" Stokes (George Eads): The key hair and fiber analyst. [Note: Former baseball player with a degree in criminal law.]

(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox): The outspoken, unhappy materials and element analyst. [Note: Weepy, heavy outlook. Was with the San Francisco coroner.]

(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

Gregory "Greg" Sanders (Eric Szmanda): Formerly the lab's peppy DNA technician; became a full-fledged CSI. [Note: Audiophile. Funny, hotfooted phenomenon.]

(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

Dr. Albert "Al" Robbins (Robert David Hall): The eerie head county coroner. [Note: A stuffy, mature baldhead (needs toupee?). Monotonous. "Weak-kneed" (interpreted as "amputations").]

(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

David Hodges (Wallace Langham): The pesky, talkative, noisome lab technician. [Note: A wee kooky. Reeks of unctuous ingenuity.]

(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

Det. Capt. James "Jim" Brass (Paul Guilfoyle): The by-the-book, bureaucratic (yet tweedy) chief of the unit then. [Note: Went back meritoriously to the police homicide department here.]

903

THE CAT AND THE YOUTH

Once upon a time, long ago and far away, a cat fell in love with a very handsome, good-looking young man, and pleaded with Venus to change her into a woman.

"I should've thought," said Venus, with some irritation, "you might make a trifling transformation like that, without having to bother me. Now cat, go thence... be a woman."

Afterwards, wanting to see if the change had been completed, Venus caused a mouse to appear, whereupon the woman shrieked, and cried, making such a spectacle of herself that the young man would not marry her.

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THE TWO KINGS

The King of Madagao, being engaged in a dispute with the King of Bornegascar, wrote to him: "Before proceeding further in this matter, I demand the recall of your Minister from the Capital."

Enraged by this impossible demand, the King of Bornegascar replied: "I shall not recall my Minister. And moreover, if you do not immediately retract your demand, I shall withdraw him!"

This threat so terrified the King of Madagao, that in hastening to comply he fell over his own feet, thus breaking the Third Commandment.

THE FOOLISH WOMAN

A married woman, whose unfortunate young lover, a gentle Hawaiian, was planning to reform by running away, vowed to get her revenge: found a gun, then shot him in the head, dead.

"Oh, what d'you do that for, Ma'am?" asked a man of Law, sauntering past.

"Cause," replied the married woman, "in truth, he wasn't ever a gentleman, but a vile wicked cheat; uncouth, unethical. He had even purchased a ticket to... to Chicago."

"Oh heavens, sister," said a man of God, solemnly, "you cannot hope to attempt to stop the wicked from going to Chicago by killing them.

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THE DISINTERESTED ARBITER

One summer morning, two stupid dogs which had been fighting, without advantage to either, to try to get their rascally paws on a magnificent bone, finally referred their difference to a common sheep.

This timid, mild, dim-looking animal heard them talk, then after a short time considering their argument, flung their bone forcibly into a pond. "Oh! Why?" asked the mortified dogs, grim, angry from shock.

"Look, fellows," the sheep replied, "not because I am barking mad...hardly that. Me... I am a vegetarian."

904

The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

THE OLD WOUNDED WEEP
(Hidden From A Damnable Tormentor)

"Ellis Island isn't that far away,"
She uttered with tears in her eyes.
The blood maggots oozed from my side
As the cruel moon was on the rise.

The torn images, the decomposed mettle
Unexpectedly soaked in wretched misery
Endure the loathsome, common damage
Of a quiet hostage's oppressive memory.

Frightful flogging coerces hardship;
Languishing, or whether in pain ...
Insufferable, the awkward attempts wither
But the smallest scars will remain.

"Ellis Island," she echoed in my ear,
"Remember rises in our horizon bright.
Take my hand, we'll soon be there.
Your sweet freedom and comfort is in sight."

905

Based loosely on "The Prophet"
with apologies to Kahlil Gibran

Love

When love beckons, go follow him joyously with handstands,
Though his ways are hard and heavy.
And when his secure wings enfold you, welcome them,
Though his hidden sword might inadvertently wound you.
When he speaks believe in him,
Though his husky voice may undo your dreams
as wind lays waste the naked garden.

Even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and pokes your young branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots, jogging them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you to himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to a whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant,
And then he assigns you to his sacred sun fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the awesome secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

But if in your fear you seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
It is better for you that you cover your nakedness with pajamas (or at least a thong) and pass out of the threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your wet tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God."
Do not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let your desires be:
To melt and be like a loud brook that sings its melody to the night.
To deserve the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love.
And vow to bleed willingly and joyfully.
Vow to wake at dawn and give thanks for another day of loving,
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy,
To return home at eventide with gratitude,
Then to sleep in the evening with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise from your lips.

Giving

You give but little when you unload your unneeded old possessions which have not sold on eBay.
When you give from your heart and soul, you really give.
Why amass and keep locked up a houseful of odd doodads in your trunks and homes out of fear that you may need them tomorrow?
What is fear of need but need of fear? See here!
Fear of thirst when your well is full is an endless thirst not quenchable at any saloon.

Those numbskull fools who usually give little of what they have, then ruefully and only for recognition, give cursed gifts.
Those who have little and give all sense the bounty of life and have bank accounts and pocketbooks that are never empty.
Those who give consciously with joy have joy as their soul's reward.
Those who give with pain have pain as their soul's burden.
Those who do not seek joy and do not think of reward,
Give as the mute flower blossoms in the valley release their fragrance with abandon into unbound space.
Through them God seems to speak, and from behind their eyes He looks and smiles upon the earth.

To give when asked is good, better to give unasked, unbound, to the saddened, empty handed, tuneless (but not the lustful).
Looking consciously for a lost soul who can receive brings greater joy than giving.
Is there anything that your soul will not share?
Everybody is someday given something, so start now so the day of giving can be yours.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving."
The apple trees in your orchard do not say this to you, or to the skunks in the yard.
They share selflessly so that they may live; to withhold is to die.
The person who has days and nights of life is worthy of anything else from you.
He who deserves to drink from the monsoon rains deserves a cup from your clean well.
Who are you that less lucky sufferers should have to ask you for charity?
Look at yourself, see that you deserve to be an instrument of giving.
Life gives to life, while you who think you give are a deluded dullard.

And you receivers (all of you) must not fret or place too much emphasis on gratitude, or you are bound to the person who gives to you.
Rather, mutually soar into the nearest sunset on the gifts as feathery wings.
Superficial concern about your debt is to doubt the generous donor who has the earth as mother, and unseen God as father.

906

Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one.
When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run.
Gun it comin' off the line Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo. M M M My Sharona

Ooh, my fatty one, my fatty one
When you gonna wake up, it's time, Sharon-a?
Ooh, I cry again, cry more again
Ooh, guns rule home tonight, don't give up.
Evil enemy minds, here, get up for hostility
of the rotten, scurvy kind...not plenum, torture momentum
My my my i yi woo M M M My poor Sharon-a?

907

Time's Best 100 Books of All Time Crossword

The subject of this BIG crossword rejoices a judgement of the best books since 1923. Conjecture regarding the journalized objective of the suggested 'majestic' booklist, as well as the justified judgement of liberal subject matter in Western and European works, enjoyment, knowledge of the books and the high standards of all the rejected works of the project has made many major and learned critics puzzled.

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Each gifted author attached penned a piece that constituted being committed to the judge's list.

Items are fiction though some have thought to have effectuated the ideologies, thought, attitude and the themes of their time to effect.

Hence, to be effective -to succeed - competitors detect the fiction title the author penned as attested by the petty, tedious nitwits from the Time Institute committee that selected the Top 100 Books since the twenties.

Get the coffee, fight the effect of fatigue and get to it.

Across: 2. Thomas Pynchon 4. Cather (S) 5. Kurt Vonnegut 7. Thomas Pynchon 10. Richard Ford 12. Raymond Chandler 18. Robert Graves 20. Graham Greene 21. Paul Bowles 22. Doris Lessing 25. Smith (S) 31. Lowry (S) 35. Joan Didion 36. Jean Rhys 38. Henry Miller 39. Toni Morrison 40. Graham Greene 42. Martin Amis 44. Dick (S) 45. A.S. Byatt 47. Kosinski (S) 48. Neal Stephenson 52. James Agee 53. Henry Green 56. Saul Bellow 60. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 62. Evelyn Waugh 67. Joseph Heller 68. John Cheever 70. Nathanael West 71. Henry Roth 72. Theodore Dreiser 74. Amis (S) 75. Zora Neale Hurston 79. Thornton Wilder 81. Bernard Malamud 84. Saul Bellow 87. Marilynne Robinson 88. Christina Stead 89. F. Scott Fitzgerald 90. E.M. Forster 92. Judy Blume 93. Margaret Atwood 94. Spark (S) 95. John Steinbeck 96. Salman Rushdie 97. Carson McCullers 98. Gibson (S) 99. Styron (S)

Down: 1. E.L. Doctorow 3. J.R.R. Tolkien 6. Elizabeth Bowen 8. le Carre (S) 9. Ian McEwan 11. Don DeLillo 13. Margaret Mitchell 14. James Baldwin 15. Philip Roth 16. Faulkner (S) 17. Kerouac (S) 19. Jonathan Franzen 23. Kesey (S) 24. John Fowles 26. V.S. Naipaul 27. Iris Murdoch 28. C.S. Lewis 29. David Foster Wallace 30. George Orwell 32. Robert Stone 33. Anthony Burgess 34. Evelyn Waugh 37. Philip Roth 41. John O'Hara 43. Virginia Woolf 46. Richard Yates 49. Ernest Hemingway 50. Ralph Ellison 51. Nabokov (S) 52. Robert Penn Warren 54. Isherwood (S) 55. Anthony Powel 57. Richard Wright 58. Walker Percy 59. J.D. Salinger 61. Gaddis (S) 63. Cormac McCarthy 64. George Orwell 65. Ishiguro (S) 66. Virginia Woolf 69. Vladimir Nabokov 73. Harper Lee 76. Dashiell Hammett 77. Flann O'Brien 78. Faulkner (S) 80. Burroughs (S) 82. John Barth 83. Chinua Achebe 85. John Updike 86. Golding (S) 91. James Dickey

If (S) has been cited beside the clue, the first name of the author has been omitted.

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