When Leonard Cohen divined the future

Self-portrait by Leonard Cohen

In her latest blogpost of Brain Pickings Weekly Maria Popova writes: "A quarter century ago, Cohen speaks to our time with astonishing prescience ... ":
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"I think the irony of America is transcendent in the song. It’s not an ironic song. It’s a song of deep intimacy and affirmation of the experiment of democracy in this country. That this is really where the experiment is unfolding.

This is really where the races confront one another, where the classes, where the genders, where even the sexual orientations confront one another. This is the real laboratory of democracy. So I wanted to have that feeling in the song, too."

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