Saturday 13 July 2013

A hot Summer night...

... just like this one.

Me, a six-foot girl with blonde hair, and Athanasios Kalinikos lie in a newly shorn wheat-field, bathing drunkenly in the light of a full moon.

I lusted after the long-legged girl, but I was in love with Athanasios.

I followed the girl into the Netherlands, but I let Arthur go back to his Greek island alone, where his uncle would smash the mud nests of the Swallows when they arrived from Africa every year.

Years later, I actually met the real Suzanne. That was when I lost all respect for Leonard Cohen - until he lost all his money, and then his voice.

Now I like him again.

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  1. Mrs H saw him singing that song many years ago in London.

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    1. I was probably lying in a field at the time.

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    2. I dare say you were Tom after all Mrs H was a Ms at the time she being much younger than you.

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  2. One of the most depressing singers on earth (and elsewhere).

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    1. No; THE most depressing singer on earth (I've just reconsidered).

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    2. I used to try to encourage him to get it over with and top himself, but he is now back on the road aged 80 or whatever, with a voice that makes Tom Waits sound like Aled Jones.

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  3. I've never been keen on him and agree with Cro ........ far too miserable.
    Our friends have just seen him in Lucca, Italy .... they love him ..... I'd rather lay in a moonlit field any day of the week but, each to their own ! XXXX

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  4. Can't say I don't love his songs, but he is a whisperer, a moaner - and a muddy thinker, though I see the beauty in that. What I don't like is he makes one melancholy, sticking to a couch or field, he "sucks" in the real sense, he sucks energy and bedims the brain and heart.
    Having said all this I must admit that I love to hear "Suzanne".

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    1. I can forgive everything for a line as "and she gives you tea and oranges/ that came all the way from china"

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    2. No, sorry - I hate him for that line.

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  5. Yes - I am all for a bit of joi de vivre myself too Tom.

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