Miss Miriam's Mirror

Emily Duffin

The Wizard had learned over the years that if the Witch began levitating the argument was no longer worth trying to win.

George Harrison: “For me, 1966 was the time when the whole world opened up and had a greater meaning. But that was a direct result of LSD.” Q: “How did taking LSD affect you?” GH: “It was like opening the door, really, and before, you didn’t even know there was a door there. It just opened up this whole other consciousness, even if it was down to, like Aldous Huxley said, the wonderful folds in his gray flannel trousers. From that smaller concept top the fact that every blade of grass and every grain of sand is just throbbing and pulsating.” Q: “Did it make you feel that your life could be very different from what it was?” GH: “Yeah, but that presented a problem as well, because then the feeling began in me of, well, it’s all well and good being popular and being in demand, but, you know, it’s *ridiculous*, really. I think from then on I didn’t enjoy fame. That’s then the novelty disappeared, around 1966, and it became hard work.” Q: “It seems as if that time was incredibly compressed. Did you feel that sense of compression?” GH: “That year — I mean, you could say any year, really, from, say 1965 up to the Seventies — it was, like, I can’t believe we did so much, you know? But those years did seem to be a thousand years long. Time just got elongated. Sometimes I felt like I was a thousand years old.” Q: “Was it at that point that your identity as one of the Beatles began to get oppressive for you?” GH: “Yeah. Absolutely — again, with the realization that came about after the lysergic. I mean, it has a humbling power, that stuff. And the ego — to be able to deal with these people thinking you were some wonderful thing — it was difficult to come to terms with. I was feeling, you know, like nothing. Even now I look back and see, relative to a lot of other groups, the Beatles did have something. But it’s a bit too much to accept that we’re supposedly the designs of this incredible change. In many ways we were just swept along with everybody else.” - Rolling Stone (November 5, 1987)

watering my plants

I’m convinced that if you could have seen my grandmother standing in the doorway waiting for him to come home from the fields, if you’d smelled that spectacular evening thick with sweat & felt the pulsing of the stars, if you’d borne witness to the animals’ moans echoing in the holler that night, if you just could have seen the hair rise up on granddaddy’s arm like that, like offerings to god, when his elbow touched hers, if you could have seen her longing dissipate just a little as he came through the door smelling like a day’s work, you should have seen them close enough to breathe the same air while not even touching. (He smiled at her without smiling.) If you could have seen them watching me watch them, then you’d know how much i love you. If you could have heard her say, You want some supper? We got pie.

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