No_Baseline wrote:CTW, you're awesome. You always say (write) exactly what you are feeling, and that is an enviable trait to possess and convey in this medium.
Thank you.
I personally think Paul McCartney will always be a cipher, so much so that at any given time the public can read/mirror his actions and somehow come up with scenarios that don't seem implausible, such as the one that he isn't even Paul McCartney...Perhaps he intends it this way, maybe he is so removed from himself and everyday life and his extraordinary past that he waits for the next installment as well... (I know I do)
I don't know him, but I do know a couple of people who have worked with him and I have one friend who actually worked for him for years and years. And I've never heard anything about him that was at all surprising or out of alignment with his personality and character as they appear in films and television. Or indirectly through his work. Or as they're described in books, or whatever.
Which has always struck me as...Hmm. How to put it delicately? Well. As not
nearly as interesting and complex as
that. By like, a gazillion long chalks. (By "that," I mean ^^, in case that's not clear.) But who knows? It's possible.
Although I would like duly to note for the record that it's
also possible that you're
actually attributing your own interesting and complex qualities to him. Or that the reason you can see them in him is because you know them in yourself on some level. Or some combination of the two. Because there's much, much more empath in us all than most people consciously experience and identify with as such, in my observation.
Not that it does anyone a lick of good unless they're using their not-consciously-experienced-as-feeling-other-people's-joys-and-sorrows skills for anything other than a kind of informal, not-consciously-consulted navigational aid to getting wherever it is they want to be with as little obstruction from those who are in a position to block their paths as they can manage to do. Which is really no sin most of the time, obviously. It's just not empathy as it's conventionally understood. Which is kind of a shame. And, um...I hope that it's clear that I'm not talking about either you or Sir Paul at this point. In fact, I suddenly realize that I'm pretty much just...TALKING. Which I will therefore cease, forthwith.
Still. It's a hopeful and comforting thought, I find, that empath thing.
