2nathan:
>Очень интересен оригинал т.наз. "хрестоматийного"
>высказывания Джона про пропасть... типа:: "Если
>ты стоишь у края пропасти и думаешь, прыгнуть
>или нет - то прыгай!"
>Это уже давно стало некой пищей для статусов
>в соцсетях или мемов.
>Очень хотелось узнать, где и когда сказано или
>опубликовано, в связи с чем, и конечно, оригинал
>на аглицкой мове. Буду очень признателен.
Это не прямая цитата из Леннона. Говорил об этом Пол Маккартни в интервью журналу The Rolling Stone 11 сентября 1986 года. Обсуждалась тема наркотиков.
RS: Did it sadden you to see Lennon subsequently drift off into heroin addiction?
PM: Yeah, I really didn’t like that. Unfortunately, he was driftin’ away from us at that point, so none of us actually knew. He never told us; we heard rumors, and we were very sad. But he’d embarked on a new course, which really involved anything and everything. Because John was that kind of a guy – he wanted to live his life to the full as he saw it. He would often say things like, “If you find yourself at the edge of a cliff and you wonder whether you should jump off or not – try jumping.” And I am afraid I would always say, “No, man, I’m not gonna jump off that cliff; I don’t care how good it is.” I remember we had dinner one night – just a friendly dinner, just bein’ mates – and I remember John saying he was thinking of having this trepanning thing done: drilling a hole in the skull. The Romans or the Greeks or somebody used to do it, so that gave it a validity in John’s mind, I think. And he said, “Would you be up for that? Do you fancy doin’ that? We could go and get it done.” I said, “Why?” He said, “It relieves the pressure on your brain.” I said, “Look, you go try it, and if it’s great, you tell me, and maybe I’ll do it.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/paul-mccartney-the-rolling-stone-intervie...
