Like many modern and post modern people the Beatles were fascinated by the random. I was recently reading that George Harrison wrote his "While my guitar gently weeps" by selecting two words (gently weeps) from a book at random. I thought I might repeat the experiment. I'm using a Penguin edition of Samuel Smiles Self-help book. That gives me something like
While my guitar plumbs the strata OR
My guitar springing into a boat OR
Play my guitar - work to be got.
If we forget about Harrison for a moment and just focus on a random phrase from Smiles - what difficulty - I can come up with
With what difficulty these words I write,
Constrained by my method, I lose the fight.
With what difficulty these lines I compose,
As for what they mean there's no-one knows.
With what difficulty deep thoughts I seek,
While all of the lines are contrived and weak.
With what difficulty I reach the end,
Let's all hope I haven't started a trend.
Just need a solo from Clapton and fame beckons.
