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Note
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It Is More a Case I
caught up late and only by accident with the voice and songs of Leonard
Cohen (b.1934) when I heard his Everybody Knows on the
sound track of the film Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994, very
atmospheric). This piece of mine is a small tribute in which I emulate
Cohen’s ironies and throwaway allusions to love’s deceptions and our
parlous times. I
have marked the stressed syllables because song lyrics include any
number of unstressed syllables between beats, and it’s not always
obvious from a mere reading without music where the main stresses come.
Alan
Marshfield
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