[Magdalen] Leonard Cohen +RIP+

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 11/11/16 8:16 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 11/10/2016 9:04:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> revegger at gmail.com writes:
>
> I just  read that LC has died.  There are no
> words.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> I certainly had no words but for a different reason:  I had no  idea
> who this was.  There was a short tribute to him on the NBC  National
> News tonight with  videos and pictures, including some  clips
> from his oeuvre.
>
> The news tribute reinforced the impression that he is unknown to
> me.
>
> This is one of a series of popular musicians/composers whose
> deaths have been reported on these pages, and that draw a complete
> blank for me.
>
> Things like this make me wonder if I'm living in an alternate universe  :-)
>
> My sympathies go out to his fans at this time.

One of our List Sisters (Sharon Brown? Sister Cyndy?) used to use a 
quotation from one of his songs, "Anthem" as her sig line:
"Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."

-- 
Sibyl Smirl
I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
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