NP: Cohen

[Smoke Teff]

I was watching the election results with about two-dozen people on Tuesday.
The mood over the course of the evening was about what you might expect. I
went home with someone I didn't really know, we needed the company. One
line that was rattling around my head throughout the night: "There is time,
if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you." It felt like I
needed it. Just before we got into bed she went to put a record on. We
talked about it. There was only one thing that made sense. Songs of Leonard
Cohen. Then Songs from a Room. It was Cohen all night. It helped. The music
was important. How often is the soundtrack of your life exactly right, when
it feels like the emotional stakes are high. Not all the time, for me. I
don't think I'll forget it. Especially not now. Feels like he was winking
at me on his way out the door.



On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> We all remember the story of the young friend of Pynchon's reading a Cohen
> novel and Pynchon
> knowing the novel(s)....
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Didja all hear what he said when someone asked if he thought HE should
>> have gotten the Nobel?
>>
>> "Dylan is Everest"....magnificently magnanimous....as warm as his voice,
>> [most of] his songs.....
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This might be one of the ones some of you dudes will actually feel. If
>>> so, I'm with ya.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If anybody has any favorite/relevant tunes, words, memories, come on in.
>>>
>>>
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>
>>
>>
>
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