Lucy in the Sky by Foxymoron

 There are four plausible explanations of the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

(1) It is about the drug LSD, as the capital letters spell out.

(2) it is a lyrical response to Julian's drawing, coloured by the writings of Lewis Carroll; 

(3) it is about a female saviour who turned out to be Yoko Ono; and 

(4) it is about Lennon's mother,

I don't have the qualifications to discuss that, but there were signs that it was the first of the above on the auction to Six Diamonds on the following board which gained a couple of new members a top:

Everything about the auction was Lucy-like. The jump shift with a broken suit, only 12 points, and a singleton in partner's suit, was wrong. East should just rebid 3D as the auction is already game-forcing, so there is no need to jump. West's 4NT was simple Blackwood, and now 5H just showed 2 aces. Looking for Grand Slam on the West hand was too ambitious, and I don't know what 5NT asked, probably for kings. It probably should be pick a slam,  and East wisely signed off in 6D, although 6H also makes. There was no defence to this. Indeed a club lead was needed to save the overtrick, and that was all the matchpoints for EW.

Picture yourself in a boat on a river

With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly

A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Last time i was in the sky for any distance was a trip to Pula and I saw the 2014 film Lucy, primarily concerned with the "10% of the brain myth", but with great visual effects and a good performance by Scarlet Johansson. The Lucy alludes vaguely to Lennon's Lucy, and I was reminded of her by another surreal auction today, also to Six Diamonds.

I think West is far too strong for 1NT and I would have opened 1C. The Kaplan-Rubens hand evaluation is 19.6 and I would prefer 2NT to 1NT.  East is barely worth a slam try, and his actual bid was alerted as Minorwood. I presume that they have an agreement that 4 of a minor is always asking in that minor, but this is a strange agreement,. West's 5D seemed to be off the minor scale, and East scratched his head and bid 6D. With diamonds 2-2 there was no defence, and diamonds produced another top.

There is not much point playing a convention which you do not understand. Next time, the result might not be so lucky. As Pope wrote:

A little learning is a dangerous thing;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;

There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain;

And drinking largely sobers us again.