And I wish I had a madeleine
The title, “I wish my name had been Marianne,” is the first line of an interesting neo-Proustian exercise involving a series of Leonard Cohen performances on video posted by Kim at Larvatus Prodeo.
The post can be found at Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender?
Love Is A Battlefield - And So Are Comments Sections
The comments on this seemingly innocuous post have somehow transformed into the all too familiar exchange of immovable opinions on Leonard Cohen’s status as an artist. Suspecting that some readers may lack the time or psychological fortitude to read the entire sequence, Heck of a Guy offers an textually inexact but nonetheless recognizable evocation of this phenomenon:
Leonard Cohen is not really a poet.
He’s a great poet and a fine songwriter too.
He’s neither.
Is too.
Is not.
You stink.
So does your mother …
[Repeat indefinitely to no positive effect]
