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21.Juni.2012

She went back to the beach to look for the room key which she thought she might have dropped there. I ran to tell her that the door was open. I stopped at the edge of the sand. The sun was going down. She had lied about the key to escape from the family. She stood in front of the sun. She had become pure attention. My heart was fouled with anxieties of the occasion. I fell to one knee remembering the feathered helmet and shield and how I had betrayed my calling, clinging to the glory of the investiture, my strength spent in boasting and lust while I embraced the alibi of the artist.

– From the commentary on the poem “Angelica” from Death of a Lady’s Man by Leonard Cohen (via leonardcohenminute)
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21.Juni.2012

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen Tells You Why You Shouldn't Whine

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen Tells You Why You Shouldn't Whine

One of the things about getting older is that you stop whining. One of the reasons you stop whining is because your experience conveys to you that your trouble is tiny compared to lots of trouble around. Once you feel that clearly, that your trouble is tiny and that there are people at this…
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21.Juni.2012

leonardcohenminute: Leonard Cohen prior to the publication of Death of a Lady’s Man. From “The ‘dead man’ speaks,” The Montreal Gazette, September 23, 1978. Photo by George Cree.

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Leonard Cohen prior to the publication of Death of a Lady’s Man. From “The ‘dead man’ speaks,” The Montreal Gazette, September 23, 1978. Photo by George Cree.
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