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Imagine is not a physical

place precisely because
The Beatles star John Lennon shows off his psychedelic Rolls Royce, 1967. ©Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Images dream’s eternal dimension
it is all places. It is the

that repeats itself on every

starry night, of the hope

that is renewed with

every dawn.

Imagine is not a physical place precisely because it is all places. closing ceremony. And again Neil Young, in memory of the victims
It is the dream’s eternal dimension that repeats itself on every of 9/11, and Madonna who performed it for the victims of the 2004
starry night, of the hope that is renewed with every dawn. Imagine Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2015, pianist Davide Martello played the
is an ageless person, a woman or man without a passport. Imagine song in front of the Bataclan in Paris after the terrorist attack.
is joined hands, it is tears but it is future. Imagine has changed its Who knows where John Lennon went after those four bullets
voice, precisely because it is all voices. were fired at point-blank range on his way home to his Yoko Ono.
Queen performed it in front of thousands of people in 1980, Surely he must have returned to a white place, unstained by blood.
at Wembley Arena, the day after a 38-caliber pistol snatched John Who knows if it is called heaven, but perhaps he already knew the
Lennon’s life. Stevie Wonder performed it in 1996 in memory of the name of that place where pure light is unhindered by anything...
victims of the terrorist attack at the Atlanta Olympics, during the Above us, only sky.

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