Fool on the hill?

Question

In your opinion who was the fool on the hill?

"The fool on the hill sees the sun going down and the eyes in his head see a world spinning round."

My opinion, Nicolas Copernicus!

Answer 1

The orignis of "the fool on the hill" are beatifully described in the wikipedia article, which I quote here:
"The song is about a man who is considered a fool by others, but whose foolish demeanor is actually an indication of wisdom. An event which prompted this song happened when Paul McCartney was walking his dog, Martha, on Primrose Hill one morning. As he watched the sun rise, he noticed that Martha was missing. McCartney turned around to look for his dog, and there a man stood, who appeared on the hill without making a sound. The gentleman was dressed respectably, in a belted raincoat. McCartney knew this man had not been there seconds earlier as he had looked in that direction for Martha. McCartney and the stranger exchanged a greeting, and this man then spoke of what a beautiful view it was from the top of this hill that overlooked London. Within a few seconds, McCartney looked around again, and the man was gone. He had vanished as he had appeared. A friend of McCartney's, Alistair Taylor, was present with McCartney during this strange incident, and wrote of this event in his book, Yesterday.

Both McCartney and Taylor could not imagine what happened to this man. He had seemed to vanish in thin air. The nearest trees for cover were too far to reach by walking or running in a few seconds, and the crest of the hill was too far as well to reach in that short time. What made the experience even more mysterious, was that just before this man first appeared, McCartney and Taylor were speaking to each other of the beauty they observed of the view towards London and the existence of God. Once back home, they spent the morning discussing what had happened, trying to make some sense of it. They both agreed that this was something others would infer occurred as a result of an acid trip, but they both swore they had not taken or used any drugs. When McCartney filmed the sequence for this song in the film, it shows him on a hilltop overlooking the town of Nice."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_on_the_Hill

Answer 2

Ninefingers sock puppet

Answer 3

i hope it's not you though !

with a question like that !

it's no wonder there's a fool at all

Answer 4

Me.