I honestly think it's a joke of some kind, Dianavan. He has a perverse sense of humour. Either that, or he just did it on a whim...and that could be again because of his perverse sense of humour.

He does really odd things from time to time. When he showed up in England in '65 to meet the press he was carrying an enormous lightbulb and wearing a top hat. The light bulb was as big as a pumpkin. God knows where he got it. They asked him if he had a particular message for people, and he said, "Always keep a good head and carry a lightbulb."

Why did he do it? Probably because he was just sick and tired of being asked to define the meaning of other people's lives for them... :-)

His interviews with the press were bizarre in '65 and '66. If he was in a good mood, they were hysterically funny. If he wasn't, they were sarcastic and very brief. He was completely disillusioned with the press, with the same questions he'd already heard 1,000 times before, and the whole thing, and he put them on ruthlessly. Sometimes they just wrote it all down faithfully, and duly reported it. He must've wondered just how far he could go before they would snap out of their professional daze and do something DIFFERENT