He suggests Marianne might join him on tour when his poems are published early the next year. He lost his teaching job because of his revolutionary ideas and I need money to cross the ocean." He abruptly adds, "I miss you so much! I was telling him all about you today during lunch." We both have excellent reasons for making the venture a success. We want to turn the medium into a real art form." He predicts that they will "all go to Spain or Greece and set up a little writing factory. He comes down here every day and we write like mad. “We’re both overjoyed with the progress we’re making. He discusses work possibilities at length, particularly writing for television with the enfant terrible of Canadian letters, Irving Layton, who had been a mentor to Cohen since his days as a McGill student. I have never felt so moved by an act of trust.” The moment he describes calls to mind a line that would appear later in "So Long, Marianne"-"You held on to me like I was a crucifix / As we went kneeling through the dark."
You put your face against my arm, held me tight, and closed your eyes, and let me see for the both of us. “Right now I’m thinking of a certain night when we walked along the Rue des Ecoles. Two pages, 280 x 217mm (a little minor soiling and one or two short closed tears at margins).Ī lengthy, peaceful letter, written to “Darling Mu” from snowy Montreal, reflecting on his feelings for her. Typed letter signed (“Leonard”) to Marianne Ihlen ("Darling Mu"), Montreal, 24 December 1960.
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