The Day Suzanne Took Me Down to Leonard's Home Town On the River ; Lifelong Fan Tom Adair Walks in the Footsteps of the Montreal Master [Eire Region]
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Call it a Leonard Cohen pilgrimage, call it obsession. For here I am in Montreal, 'that shining Jerusalem of the north' as Cohen described it, the place of his birth, aiming to genuflect in his footsteps.
I am a fan - of the early novels, of the imagery of his poetry, of the dirges that haunt me ruthlessly into my dreams.See the full content of this document
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The Day Suzanne Took Me Down to Leonard's Home Town On the River ; Lifelong Fan Tom Adair Walks in the Footsteps of the Montreal Master [Eire Region]
Inside my hotel room, I dream he is present and wake to find that no one has heard of him.
'Leonard who? You're sure he sings?' says a kid in a record shop 'You a cop?' asks a friendly streetbum. 'You got the mug shot? Maybe I seen him.'Well, now you seen him... Or, no, on ...See the full content of this document
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