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In an interview post-Beatles, Lennon explained the impact Carroll had on him as a child as an adult. “To me, [“The Walrus and the Carpenter”] was a beautiful poem — it never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles’ work,” he said . “Later I went back and looked at it, and realized that the Walrus was the bad guy in the story and the Carpenter was the good guy. I thought: ‘Oh, shit, I’ve picked the wrong guy.’ But that wouldn’t have been the same, would it? ‘I am the carpenter…'”