Jane, Jane, your ability to pass off opinion as fact is truly astounding. 
I can see that for a lennon fan your image of John as some wide eyed innocent sucked into drug hell by this eastern temptress would be very appealing. But just because you want it to be don't make it so.
Facts and evidence, not wishful thinking and supposition.
We could just easily change gullible and unsuspecting to needy (being dominated by Yoko) and stupid (his drug fetish).
Hello, Kevin, my teacher!
Does it really sound as FACT? I wonder if you really get it as something astounding? Certainly it is my opinion but based on all I`ve read about them.
1. Yoko acted insidiously, because she did it on purpose: you know well that she was sitting right behind John`s back in the studio and even accompanied him to the toilet and waited there by the door and so on. This is all written in the books. In this way she made herself everpresent. So that the person would feel abandoned if left alone even for a second.
2. It was Yoko who suggested that they should take heroin but smell it, not inject it (written in the book). John eager for new experiences succumbed. As a result 5 years of absence. Meanwhile Yoko ran his business, took care of his finances, of which he knew nothing, and had always been such, ursurped the telephone line.
3. John managed to get out of it and life was starting for him, it was just starting over. He was restoring his communication with Julian and you know the rest.
That is my interpretation of events. Some of it may be true, some not. No imposition of anything on anybody! And, please, I never want to pass off something as fact. (Actually, you yourself understood it right, if you wrote about "passing my opinion off as fact" - Opinion.
I agree with you that evidence is needed, cold dry facts. But you and POMPON are right when you say that we can`t know for sure in such things. As we say in such cases: none of us held the candle then...
However, interpretation is an interesting activity. A lot of writers interprete events as well.
Yes, Kevin, interpretation can be stretched in different directions, you are absolutely right!!!
