In the song Temporary Secretary who or what is Mister Marks? I’m guessing it’s a pimp, but I’ve never heard this term for one before.
Any other ideas?
The man at the temp employment agency would be the most obvious choice.
I’d be curious as to how you read prostitution into this song. Are you related to the poster who sees pedophilia in the most innocuous of lyrics?
I agree, that song is entirely devoid of anything that could be remotely interpreted as a double entendre.
Entirely.
Yeah, if Paul McCartney were as simple minded as your average Canadian national.
The man at the temp employment agency wouldn’t be the same guy mentioned in “Listen to what the man said” would it?
I’m curious as to what P.M. means by the term “Mr. Marks” and dissecting the lyrics it seems that he’s looking more for a trallop than an actual secretary. You arrive at the [boring] “obvious” explination to the song lyric, yet dig deeply into my motivation into what it means.
I heard the song recently for the first time in about 20 year(give or take) and I was just wondering why he chose to use the name “Mr. Marks” over anything elese, if it meant anything or not. No need to psychoanalyse me!
Well, you’ve made up your mind. There’s no point in my attempting to have a discussion with you, is there?
Points to ponder:
- Paul McCartney could be master of the banal when he chose to.
- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Impossible. He’s been dead since 1966.
Obviously, it’s an allusion to James Joyce’s FINNEGANS WAKE, where Joyce wrote “Three quarks for Muster Mark,” inspiring Murray Gell-Mann to name the particle a ‘quark’. The song is a detailed riff on on theoretical physics, of course, plus it contains cryptic allusions to Dialectical materialism as explained by the original “Mister Marks,” i.e. Karl Marx, who did have to hire "Temporary Secretary"s on short notice to render his terrible handwriting comprehensible. And of course Mister Marks is an allusion to himself, of course, being closely associated with Mister Lenin, who of course would be John Lennon, to whom he’s sending a snide message in response to Lennon’s “How Do You Sleep?” by calling Lennon a trivial womanizing creep.
I’m surprised you didn’t know all that.