Leonard Cohen reading an excerpt from Beatiful Losers

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  • Опубликовано: 21 окт 2010
  • "You plagued me like the moon. I knew you were bound by old laws of suffering and obscurity. I am fearful of the cripple's wisdom. A pair of crutches, a grotesque limp can ruin a stroll which I begin in a new suit, clean-shaven, whistling. I envied you the certainty that you would amount to nothing. I coveted the magic of torn clothes. I was jealous of the terrors I constructed for you but could not tremble before myself. I was never drunk enough, never poor enough, never rich enough. All this hurts, perhaps it hurts enough. It makes me want to cry out for comfort. It makes me stretch my hands out horizontally. Yes, I long to be President of the new Republic. I love to hear the armed teenagers chant my name outside the hospital gates. Long live the Revolution! Let me be President for my last thirty days."
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Комментарии • 49

  • @TheLenyon
    @TheLenyon 4 года назад +27

    My God, Leonard, how do you do it

    • @simonlevett4776
      @simonlevett4776 7 месяцев назад +1

      I think a lot of people over the years have asked the same question.

    • @redadamearth
      @redadamearth 25 дней назад

      Acid. He wrote "Beautiful Losers" on a LOT of acid at a house in Greece.

  • @jimih8539
    @jimih8539 2 года назад +11

    Still one of my all time fav books 🙏

    • @qu1nnny
      @qu1nnny Год назад +1

      should i read it???

    • @jimih8539
      @jimih8539 Год назад +1

      @@qu1nnny
      Definitely put it on your bucket list 🙏

    • @simonlevett4776
      @simonlevett4776 7 месяцев назад

      It's terrible. I like some of his songs, Winter Lady being a stand out song, but Beautiful Losers was unreadable. @@qu1nnny

  • @mayash4870
    @mayash4870 2 года назад +3

    Никогда не слышала ничего даже отдаленно напоминающего эту музыку высших миров.

  • @fiorellafenati5395
    @fiorellafenati5395 5 месяцев назад

    dearly beloved

  • @lynale990
    @lynale990 6 лет назад +7

    Sometimes I related him to Al Pacino.

  • @sweetgypsywife
    @sweetgypsywife 13 лет назад +8

    (Nurse) Mary is jiggling, endangering the journey....
    Very funny,... amazingly well written!! LC..genius!
    God is alive ...Magic is afoot....(and variations)

    • @faraway2686
      @faraway2686 6 лет назад +1

      Sweet Gypsy Wife I wonder if your hair still sleeps like a golden storm upon your pillow? 🙏❤️

  • @jameskennedy721
    @jameskennedy721 Год назад

    Cohen only recalled a fraction of what F discovered and told him about . But those were enough clues to fuel his journey of discovery that the music albums were messages - updates - about .

  • @christinewilliams4515
    @christinewilliams4515 Год назад

    It def is 😮

  • @estherjudah7606
    @estherjudah7606 2 года назад +2

    Virgina wolf
    To the Lighthouse
    Stream of consciousness
    Main character killed in the (brackets)

  • @arricammarques1955
    @arricammarques1955 8 месяцев назад

    Once ridiculed & reviled upon release. It's considered a classic debut novel.

    • @simonlevett4776
      @simonlevett4776 7 месяцев назад

      Beautiful Losers was his second novel, wasn't it ?

  • @MrMolgen
    @MrMolgen 7 лет назад +3

    Hey yami26lc
    Where is this audio clip from?

  • @faraway2686
    @faraway2686 6 лет назад +2

    The irony of Cohen v trump

  • @bartonknight2677
    @bartonknight2677 Год назад +2

    What's up with you all saying this isn't Leonard Cohen. Y'all must be ... new. Go back and listen to his old interviews. Then. Get a life. 🤠

  • @izatafactnow
    @izatafactnow 7 месяцев назад

    Legend! Read this book 8 times easy... certain noted passages way way more

  • @MSYNGWIE12
    @MSYNGWIE12 Год назад +2

    A desert island must have- an astonishing, sublime, seditious, "dirty" novel in the pre-politically era of censorship- I've read it many times and will never completely understand all of it but I laugh and ponder and yes I STILL fantasize about being in bed with this glorious man and I always will- my husband knows and just shrugs! Magic is afoot...Namaste Leonard, many miss you...😊

  • @morph628
    @morph628 13 лет назад +7

    How do you guys work through the image of the "telephone dance" between F and Edith?

    • @donsimon5412
      @donsimon5412 6 лет назад

      morph628 w an on

    • @MSYNGWIE12
      @MSYNGWIE12 3 года назад

      Explain to me. One of my eternal bedside table books, a choice for A Year On A Desert Island pick. I LOVE, ADORE, THIS MAN, THIS BOOK. Will somebody explain their perception of this passage...A great book, sanctioned by Leonard, Savage Grace or Savage Fields, by a Canadian scholar- hit the mark mostly. Deals with the too oft over-looked, Bruce Cockburn too. Leonard IS SO FUNNY, SO MANY CRITICS, SO CALLED MUSIC LOVERS, miss his delightful witt. I miss him so. Anybody out there who hasn't read this book ( consider it, O.T. ) read it! Will heal you more than basket weaving or play dough...Namaste, Z. ( I love you Leonard, from one of your gypsy wives...I wonder what Suzanne Elrod is doing these days...)

    • @caylastrudel899
      @caylastrudel899 2 года назад

      @@MSYNGWIE12 wasup, how are you friend

  • @elizabethhurtado2829
    @elizabethhurtado2829 Год назад

    Edith, my grandmother was also known as Julia. Julia/Edith. Go ahead and sing and judge my father again for his disability because in my eyes he will always be more of a man than you.

  • @morph628
    @morph628 13 лет назад +5

    I think this is F speaking. Does anyone know for sure?

  • @UnknownDnB
    @UnknownDnB 11 лет назад +2

    Are you still wondering? Tell me this answer! Tell me who F is and who is who

  • @mariaduarte-bm1bf
    @mariaduarte-bm1bf 6 лет назад +2

    I dont think this is Leonard-s voice.....

    • @angelicaluce3230
      @angelicaluce3230 6 лет назад +12

      Yes, it is. I knew him - then - and now, 40 years later - and it's Leonard

    • @MarcusP52
      @MarcusP52 4 года назад +8

      It's him as a young man. His voice deepened with age.

  • @helenadelgado-cohen6603
    @helenadelgado-cohen6603 4 года назад +2

    That is not Leonard Cohen

  • @mariacahill5226
    @mariacahill5226 2 года назад +1

    NOT LEONARD COHEN VOICE, SHAME ON YOU!

  • @helenadelgado-cohen6603
    @helenadelgado-cohen6603 4 года назад +1

    That is not Leonard Cohen

    • @MadMusicologist
      @MadMusicologist 4 года назад +8

      Why do you think so? There are some more clips of him in younger age, it's the same voice.

    • @juliatikhonov3735
      @juliatikhonov3735 4 года назад +8

      It's him 100%