Fljotsdale wrote:The subject matter is the most difficult I have ever read. But the way it is written is compelling. He draws you down into nightmare and rubs your face in human baseness and anguish. I know of no other writer who spreads his soul all over the page like that.
He does it in his music lyrics and poetry as well. He seems to hold nothing back.
We all have bits of ourselves we want to hide, to be ashamed of, to avoid admitting to.
Cohen doesn't.
A few days ago I read this and I have been thinking about it
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Probably the Cohen's great attractive is his way of exploring and telling these deep feelings. I remember a lizzytysh's written, she spoke about his style of singing, the closed eyes, bowed inward, extracting it of inside. This sensation of honesty and knowledge, maybe mistaken but is very real for me, makes me feel Leonard very close to me - in spite of to be so far away in every meaning - and very very dear.
As Tchocolatl says, there is impressive the quantity of prominent figures of the Jewish community who ventilated - and made hygienic - zones of our interior. Also we have to be grateful to them for their magnificent sense of the humor, sometimes. Again we see as the individuals behave of a different - and better - form to the group or State
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It does not worry me on the identification between writer, character and reader. Cohen or Shakespeare can build terrible figures and we can understand them. It is not matter if we are like them. We all are human beings - more similar than we imagine - and we recognize features that we have. There is not danger of developing the strokes, we have rationalized them.
Tchocolatl, most of my vacations are already made
. I do not write with more frequency because it costs me very much, I am stubborn, slow and cannot transmit freshness and style
. I can assure you that I would like to contribute more things, also in other threads.
The destiny of all the Indian peoples was to succumb in front a more powerful, cruel and wild forces, do not better. Really a few tribes were soft or smooth and others were fierce warriors. I wonder if you had preferred to be: a soft - good - Indian or a fierce warrior - bad -... in front your killer
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(I have written "good" and "bad" because I know that you hate this simplification. I liked this of white and black monolith).
I do not feel responsible of that the Spanish did. For agreements, in that time, the Catalans we could not be going to America to stole gold. We were independent states and they had this monopoly.
We did some raids for the Mediterranean managing to hang our flag on the Acropolis, this painted in Beautiful Losers and that the British stole - good part of the Parthenon - for the British Museum. Well, I am not proud of that bunch of Catalans and mercenaries did there.
I am in solidarity with my Spanish brothers if they ask for the prohibition of something so cruel and shameful, as are the bullfights
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A simple way of ridiculing the idea of Independence is to reduce it to a topic of money. It is not as well a good way to remember as they were raped. It is better to think that an individual has to be free and independent to decide to marry. That a community has to be free and independent - or to feel like that - to form a part of a bigger community
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which said it was a rarity) while having done mostly what I am doing with this 24/24 hours per day connection I have now. Of course it depends a lot of the activities on the net one has. This to tell you that I would like to read your post more often! 
It was you writing 
