Happy Birthday, Paul and Ringo!

I feel obliged to my readers (I'm including those who may read this a hundred, perhaps even a thousand years from now, so we're talking about trillions of people, right?) to provide a relatively immediate response to the recent Paul McCartney news story regarding his upcoming ballet. And not because anyone would ever include me among the world's ballet lovers.

A Feb. 23rd New York Times article states the premise of Paul McCartney's upcoming ballet as:

"involving two worlds — the ocean kingdom.... and the earth kingdom"

In my blog's "Statement of Purpose" (at the top of each blog page) I refer to my story "Endless Voyage" (written when I was 10, in 1965) as having been..... well.... "source material" of sorts for a number of Beatles works. You laugh. I understand.

In the second blog article I ever wrote, "A Few Words About My Statement of Blog Purpose" (August 10, 2008, which is additionally published at Archive.Org as part of Volume One of my collected blog articles), I was specific about the premise of "Endless Voyage":

"And so, dispassionately, the human race would be divided in half, and the question of what to do with all the people resolved, by sending half to live beneath the sea, to become a group of strangers to the other half of the human race."

This is not to say any of this is new. There's the ancient story of the ancient undersea world of Atlantis, which McCartney friend and "Yellow Submarine" song contributor Donovan sang about; there's Jimi Hendrix, for whom McCartney was a benefactor at a certain point to a degree, who sang at that same time about people being able to breathe underwater. I conjecture that both Hendrix and Donovan doing so could have been in alignment with the same thing, through McCartney. Far more importantly (should one be inclined to compare the importance of such things), I believe McCartney's alignment with my "Endless Voyage" story (which I didn't regard as a Beatles starting point until certain occurrences in my life, work, and in the life and work of the members of the Beatles, which I believe continue to occur to this day, to this blog article, in fact!) warrants at least a degree of consideration. Certainly I must point it out.

I plan to give more time to this (in spite of it regarding ballet), however, just now I am preoccupied with remembering today as George Harrison's birthday. Happy to remember the Beatle who in some ways is best remembered as not being John, Ringo or Paul. And is also remembered as being George.