Leonard Cohen
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:27:18 -0400 (EDT)
It had been my virtuous intention to avoid this particular thread....
I got into SO MUCH trouble by (apparently) academically suggesting that
Shakespeare was a writer worthy of (my--apparently) pathetic love.....
Jesus Christ! People are proposing authors like Tom Robbins (whom I've
praised to the hilt--if anyone cares to consult the archives.....) as
LOVEable....
I thought we were being SERIOUS here....
I've been accused of being a 'section man' for loving Shakespeare....
But now we're talking Lenny Cohen....
.... a compatriot.... A Great Canadian.... I remember standing in the
upper stalls at the Usher Hall (be still my beating heart--and your's,
Scottie....) for the final curtain call in a 1976 concert..... Lenny
(who's reputation, in Scotland, was as a singer that one played to commit
suicide by....) ran onstage and sang a rousing rendition of "I'm Only Doing
It for the Money".....
Nobody seems to understand that Canadians are ALWAYS trying to be funny....
Like a bird, on a wire....
Cheers,
Paul