I got the idea for that song from a book of Leonard Cohen poetry by the same name.
He told Creem magazine in a 1986 interview: 'A lot of people think I wrote 'Beautiful Loser' about myself. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.įrom Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen ©1966. This song is about people who set their goals so low, they never achieve anything. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. The novella is a strange confessional it is hard to imagine Cohen writing in any mode other than the first person involving a youngish office worker, his doomy occasional lover Marylin and. Did you know that the late singer-songwriter behind iconic ballads like. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. Beautiful Losers audiobook by Leonard Cohen, narrated by Collected Narrators.
I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. A saint does not dissolve the chaos if he did the world would have changed long ago. And it left me wishing there were more Cohen novels to read. And, yet, McClelland was rightit is marvellously well written. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. Beautiful Losers is indeed difficult, and I can’t say I enjoyed it or that I would recommend it to friends. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility.
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