Attica ! Attica !!

Mark David Chapman was a longtime Beatles fan. One day he decided to meet his idol John Lennon. As decided, Chapman met Lennon and had a Beatles Disc signed by him. That moment Chapman's ambition was fulfilled. He wanted to return to his hotel room. He didn't. Instead he pulled out a .38 and shot at Lennon's aorta.

And then he continued reading "The Catcher in the Rye".

When I heard this story,i read the book straight away. The book was a revelation of a kind for me since i wasn't too much into literature before that. Most Importantly what Chapman noticed in it, didn't escape my eyes either. Holden Caulfield, the protaganist of this book is a man who couldn't bear "phony" stuff. He once goes to a movie, which was a box-office classic, but couldn't bear watching it because of the phony acting.

This moment of the book stuck with me. This changed my views about movies and books forever. In other words "It was a life-saving moment for me". Since then i have read this book 3 times. This wasn't the case just with me. Millions of fans who have read this book, never stopped there. Some have read it and re-read it infinite times. Some couldn't get enough. And one of them was Chapman.

John Lennon was a phony bastard. This was a millionaire who once said " Imagine a world without money". This is the guy who sung "I am the walrus" and later said " Sorry I am the Carpenter". Chapman was once a fan of him. But he couldn't accept his phoniness. He ultimately gave up when Lennon went mad and shot his mouth off about McCartney and Beatles and Jesus Christ.

Twenty years hence Chapman is still in Attica serving for the murder. He has written innumerable bail petitions all of them ignored due to the persistent bitch Ono and the Phony fans.

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