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John Lennon
Lennon 's love of wordplay and nonsense with a twist found a wider audience when he was 24 . Harry writes that In His Own Write ( 1964 ) was published after `` Some journalist who was hanging around the Beatles came to me and I ended up showing him the stuff . They said , ' Write a book ' and that 's how the first one came about '' . Like the Daily Howl it contained a mix of formats including short stories , poetry , plays and drawings . One story , `` Good Dog Nigel '' , tells the tale of `` a happy dog , urinating on a lamp post , barking , wagging his tail -- until he suddenly hears a message that he will be killed at three o'clock '' . The Times Literary Supplement considered the poems and stories `` remarkable ... also very funny ... the nonsense runs on , words and images prompting one another in a chain of pure fantasy '' . Book Week reported , `` This is nonsense writing , but one has only to review the literature of nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off . While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play , many others have not only double meaning but a double edge . '' Lennon was not only surprised by the positive reception , but that the book was reviewed at all , and suggested that readers `` took the book more seriously than I did myself . It just began as a laugh for me '' .
Lennon 's love of wordplay and nonsense with a twist found a wider audience when he was 24 . Harry writes that In His Own Write ( 1964 ) was published after `` Some journalist who was hanging around the Beatles came to me and I ended up showing him the stuff . They said , ' Write a book ' and that 's how the first one came about '' . Like the Daily Howl it contained a mix of formats including short stories , poetry , plays and drawings . One story , `` Good Dog Nigel '' , tells the tale of `` a happy dog , urinating on a lamp post , barking , wagging his tail -- until he suddenly hears a message that he will be killed at three o'clock '' . The Times Literary Supplement considered the poems and stories `` remarkable ... also very funny ... the nonsense runs on , words and images prompting one another in a chain of pure fantasy '' . Book Week reported , `` This is nonsense writing , but one has only to review the literature of nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off . While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play , many others have not only double meaning but a double edge . '' Lennon was not only surprised by the positive reception , but that the book was reviewed at all , and suggested that readers `` took the book more seriously than I did myself . It just began as a laugh for me '' .