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13
“I think I have”:
LC
to George Dickerson, 30 October 1962,
UT
.

14
“One day I found”:
LC
to GD, 30 October 1962,
UT
.

15
“anyone with an ear”:
LC
to IL, 15 October 1962,
UT
.

16
“Has the world”:
LC
to RW, 22 November 1962,
LCA
.

17
“coffin-colored room”:
LC,
“Luggage Fire Sale,”
Partisan Review
36 (Winter 1969) 91.

18
“change is the only aphrodisiac”
: “Luggage Fire Sale,” FR 92.

19
“a couple of women”: “Luggage Fire Sale,” FR 91.

20
“and a complete suntan”: “Luggage Fire Sale,” FR 91.

21
“sweetest aspect”: “Luggage Fire Sale,” FR 92.

22
“Cultural crises”:
LC,
unpub. report, [1962],
LCA,
[3].

23
“It’s a perfect little machine”:
LC
to IL, 26 February 1963,
UT
.

24
“[Yeats] has had”:
LC
to CS, 10 May 1963,
LCA
.

25
“Tell all your gold friends”:
LC
to CS, 22 May 1963,
LCA
.

26
“The photograph is of”:
LC
to CS, 7 July 1963,
LCA
.

27
“I haven’t been to sleep”:
LC
to SW, 15 February 1963,
LCA
.

28
“a first novel”:
JM
c
CL
to
LC,
31 May 1963,
M
c
M
.

29
“a third novel”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
4 July 1963,
UT
.

30
“I will write a book”:
LC,
to
JM
c
CL,
4 July 1963,
UT
.

31
“a beautiful book”:
JM
c
CL
to
LC,
31 May, 1963,
M
c
M
.

32
“one of the great dangers”:
JM
c
CL
to
LC,
31 May, 1963,
M
c
M
.

33
“I’ve never written easily”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
4 July 1963,
UT
.

34
“will speak to nobody”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
4 July 1963,
UT
.

35
“I accept the hemlock”:
LC
to CS, 10 May 1963,
LCA
.

36
“a fairly original study”:
LC
to CS, 1 September 1963,
LCA
.

37
“best creative periods”:
LC
to EC, 12 Nay 1963,
UT
.

38
“prose poems”:
LC
to
CBC,
12 June 1963,
UT
.

39
“I gave my mental health”:
LC
to Marian McNamara, 6 September 1963, c.

40
“So many of my values”:
LC
to CS, 1 September 1963,
LCA
.

41
“Because you are Leonard Cohen”:
JM
c
CL
to
LC,
22 August 1963,
M
c
M
.

42
“feeling as you do”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
9 September 1963,
UT
.

43
“I know this book”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
9 September 1963,
UT
.

44
“they’ve been staggered”:
JM
c
CL M
c
CL.,
9 September 1963,
UT
.

45
“This is a manuscript”: anon. to
LC,?
October 1963,
MCM
.

46
“This poetry is full of”: anon. to
LC,
14 August 1963,
M
c
M
.

47
“immature”:? to
LC,
14 August 1963,
M
c
M
.

48
“With scorn, love, nausea”: CP to
LC,
13 August 1963,
M
c
M
.

49
“I was ambushed by fifty”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
29 March 1964,
UT
.

50
“The title is”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
29 May 1964,
UT
.

51
“with my face for tits”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
2 September 1964,
UT
.

52
“The whole point”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
16 August 1964,
UT
.

53
“Note on the title”: FH [iii].

54
“I don’t profess”:
JM
c
CL
to
LC,
11 September 1963,
M
c
M
.

55
“has made me and the book”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
1 March 1965,
UT
.

56
“The Mediterranean”:
LC
to IL, 6 August 1963,
UT
.

57
“Well, you know”: “So Long, Marianne,”
SLC
.

58
“I had the woman I loved”: “The Price of This Book,” DLM 168.

59
“a violent disintegration”:
LC
to CS, 6 September 1963,
UT
.

60
“what I want from people”:
LC
to CS, 6 September 1963,
UT
.

61
“The further a writer”:
LC
to CS, 4 August 1963,
UT
.

62
“A tall blonde girl”:
LC
to IL, 1 September 1963,
UT
.

63
“Lots of French lesbians”:
LC
to EC, 31 August 1963,
UT
.

64
“from a sexual point of view”:
LC
to EC, 31 August 1963,
UT
.

65
“I threw open the shutters”: ES 10–11.

66
“there were thousands of poems”:
LC,
English Poetry in Quebec
, ed. John Glassco (Montreal: McGill University Press, 1965) 42.

67
“a self-authenticated speaking”: IL,
EPQ
30.

68
“The mass magazine”:
LC,
EPQ
63.

69
“were never lovers”:
LC
in Barbara Amiel, “Leonard Cohen says that to all the girls,”
Maclean’s
(18 September 1978): 58.

70
“Suzanne takes you down”: “Suzanne,”
SLC
.

71
“And Jesus was a sailor”: “Suzanne,”
SLC
.

72
“compassionate attention”:
LC,
“The John Hammond Years, Pt. 12”
CBC
Radio (October 1986). “Now Suzanne takes your hand”: “Suzanne,”
SLC
.

73
“Most of my songs”:
LC,
“The John Hammond Years,”
CBC
.

74
“uncovering the lyric”:
LC,
“The John Hammond Years,”
CBC
.

75

TV
stations pay me”:
LC
to “Dear People,” 11 December 1963,
UT
.

76
“I was mailing a letter”:
LC,
11 December 1963,
UT
.

77
“this Sunday”:
LC,
11 December 1963,
UT
.

78
“Poet-Novelist Says”: “Poet-Novelist Says Judaism Betrayed,”
Canadian Jewish Chronicle
(10 January 1964) 3, 15 carried a report of the meeting. The edited talk appears in
Take This Waltz
, 143–153.

79
“Draw me with a valuable sign”: “Foreign God,” PH 74.

80
“please quit soon”:
LC
to Earle Birney, 21 February 1964,
UT
.

81
“the distinction between”:
LC
to Ann Caffin, 21? February 1964,
UT
.

82
“there’s something about the West”:
LC
to AC, 21? February 1964,
UT
.

83
“Vancouver is”:
LC
to AC, 21? February 1964,
UT
.

84
“fairly triumphant”:
LC
to
MM
c
N,
29 March 1964,
UT
.

85
“Most of all”:
LC
to “Dear People,”? February 1964,
UT
.

86
“liturgy, a big confessional oration”:
LC
to Phyllis Webb,
CBC
TV, 29 April 1966.

87
“in the country”:
LC
to “Dear People,”? February 1964,
UT
.

88
“new novel, PLASTIC BIRCHBARK”:
LC
to JMCCL, 2 September 1964,
UT
.

89
“the whole system collapsed”:
LC,
“Comme un Guerrier,”
Throat Culture
60.

90
“Leonard Cohen”:
Time
84 (6 November) 1964: 16.

91
“the reading-tour”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
1 March 1965,
M
c
M
.

92
“torn on the conflicts”:
LC
to
MM
c
N,
29 March 1964,
UT
.

93
“You’re coming to your goal”:
Montreal Star
, 13 July 1963, 1.

94
“in ten years”:
LC
to “Dear People,”? February 1964,
UT
.

95
“I have made a commitment”:
LC
to George Johnston,? February 1964,
UT
.

96
“embodied in her own life”:
LC
in Winfried Siemerling, “A Political Constituency that Really Exists,”
Take This Waltz
161.

97
“We have among us adepts”:
LC,
“We are getting to know the police better,” 1965 [2–3],
LCA
.

98
“and if it gets by”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL, 1
March 1965,
M
c
M
.

99
“written the Bahgavad Gita”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
20 March 1965,
UT
.

100
“BEAUTIFUL LOSERS”:
LC,
UT
.

101
“You have been”:
BL
149.

102
“a man is writing this”:
BL
102.

103
“how to treat”:
LC
to
MM
c
N,
27 April 1965, c.

104
“As far as the prologue”:
LC
to CS, 10 July 1965,
LCA
.

105
“my fast has been”:
LC,
prose fragment, 1966?
UT
.

106
“Canada with the Maple Leaf”: anon., 30 December 1965,
M
c
M
.

107
“honest-to-God”: Leslie Fiedler, 17 January 1966,
UT
.

108
“It astounds and baffles”:
JM
c
CL,
15 June 1965,
M
c
M
.

109
“for a brief period”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,?
August 1965,
M
c
M
.

110
“Fiend of the Kaballa!”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,?
August 1965,
M
c
M
.

111
“the book I hold”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,?
August, 1965,
M
c
M
.

112
“exhibitionism I argued off”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,?
August 1965,
M
c
M
.

113
“Canadian critical opinion”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,?
August 1965,
M
c
M
.

114
“if you can get”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,?
August, 1965,
M
c
M
.

115
“Driven by loneliness and despair”:
LC,
prose fragment, 1965,
UT
.

116
“I lost my only carbon”:
LC
to
MM
c
N,
4 August 1965, c.

117
“Live forever”: telegram to
LC,
29 March 1966,
UT
.

118
“a fantasy wrapped”: Robert Fulford, “Leonard Cohen’s Nightmare Novel,”
Toronto Star
(26 April 1966) 27.

119
“the story concerns”: Miriam Waddington, “Bankrupt Ideas and Chaotic Style,”
Globe Magazine
(30 April 1966) 17.

120
“i give the book of Cohens”: bill bissett, “!!!!,”
Alphabet
13 (June 1967) 94.

121
“it’s the best thing”:
LC
in S. Lumsden,
Weekend Magazine
(12 September 1970) 24.

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