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   W.Dockery to General-Zod   
   Re: Robert Christgau on Leonard Cohen (2   
   22 Feb 25 04:45:50   
   
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   >>>>> available song fragments. These he spread over three albums that taken   
   >>>>> together posited a future in which his soul would leave this coil. The   
   >>>>> exact date remained obscure--when a recent New Yorker profile surmised   
   >>>>> that it was imminent, Cohen riposted that he intended to live forever.   
   >>>>> But just as 2010's Old Ideas packed a sardonic punch worthy of a   
   >>>>> 78-year-old road dog, on 2016's You Want It Darker his voice was a husk.   
   >>>>> It wasn't the first time. But in retrospect it seems a clear-eyed signal   
   >>>>> that Leonard Cohen knew exactly what he was doing.   
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   >>>>> ******************************************************************   
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   >>>> Good read, Zod.   
   >   
   >>> Yo. !   
   >   
   >> Robert Christgau had some interesting insights.   
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   > Right on   
      
   Great for another read.   
      
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