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Songs of Love and Hate
It’s 1:30 am and I’m listening to Leonard Cohen singing “Did you ever go clear?”, looking at the fragments of my life scattered in the aftermath of a breakup. A breakup. I suppose it doesn’t behove a man of science to display feelings but we can’t help being human once in a while. “Avalanche” and “Famous Blue Raincoat” are two of my favourite songs, “If I am on a pedestal, you didn’t raise me there, your laws do not compel me to kneel grotesque and bare”. In many respects Cohen is incomparable in what he brings to music. These songs have long been emblazoned into my brain and these echoes remind me of the infinite pathos that man’s resolute soul can bring upon itself to bear....Posted on: 2020-06-05, in Category: misc
