Thanks, Mike and Moose
We do need an antidote to the argument and vicious antagonism, that’s for sure.
I was very sad to see that Leonard Cohen had died. Like many on the List, I am
sure, I grew up with his songs of the 70s. I moped in my room at home to Bird
on a Wire, Suzanne and Marianne. Years after I joined the RAF I was getting
sozzled in the bar of the Officers’ Club in Decimomannu when a fellow pilot
produced his guitar and struck up Suzanne, slowly enough for me to follow with
my harmonica. I loved his poems, set to music.
But we’re watching Rick Stein visiting Lisbon and the ambience is eminently
anti-political, anti-troubles-of-the-world. As JohnH has probably suggested,
as well as Philippe, we must visit – while it remains a relatively unspoiled
centre of civilisation. And I don’t like sea food . . .
Chris
> On 11 Nov 16, at 21:26, Mike Gordon via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Hallelujah Moose wrote:
>
> <<The heck with all this political hand wringing.
>
>
> <<<Leonard Cohen, Transplant from the Great North, went to meet "the Lord of
> Song" yesterday.
> <http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792
> <http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792>>
> <<<<There's news about how the world is different than the day before.
>
>
> <<<I've never found him too dark, nor depressive at all. A clear vision and
> truth telling about the relationship <<<between light and dark seem to me
> something we all could use. Thank goodness for recording, so I can <<<still
> hear not just the words, but that voice delivering them.
> <<<His son said "He was writing up until his last moments with his unique
> brand of
> <<<humor."
>
>
> <<<He said his youthful ambition was to be a successful minor poet - because
> he couldn't understand the <<<major ones. I'm guessing he won't get a Nobel
> for his lyrics, but he's right up there for me.
>
>
> Thanks for that.
>
> I certainly noticed this event. Here is another obit.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/jujqljl <http://tinyurl.com/jujqljl>
>
> Marnie and I had been thinking of him as his tune "Who by fire" was performed
> at our synagogue this year. It is a poetic interpretation of the ancient Yom
> Kippur liturgy Unetanneh Tokef.
> Judging from its style probably composed in Israel during the Byzantine
> period (namely 330–638). All I know, though am on the atheist fringe of the
> agnostic wing of our congregation (am told that is almost 1/2) it was moving
> and
> left me with goose bumps.
>
> And who shall I say is Calling? Mike
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