Do You Wanna Know A Secret?

[poliphilo]

Seems I'm an expert on the Beatles.

Channel 5 screened a documentary called Secrets of the Beatles, but it was just a guided tour of the usual landmarks and I switched off after an hour. Yeah, they did drugs, they went with girls. Tell me something I don't already know.

One pleasing trifle: there are women in Liverpool who had children by one or other of the Beatles but have never profited from it or dished the dirt. Damn good show. Human dignity rules, OK!

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[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

And I must add that Jesus fit all the criteria. He was doomed from the beginning to die young.

Perhaps there is an archetype for genius. Jung once said that some people are possessed by the archetype (the daemonic) for their entire lifetimes--as was Jesus, he added.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

A single archetype? I'd say several. There are the gods who die young, but there are also those who live to enjoy a titanic old age- like Brahms or Picasso or Einstein.