Tag Archives: Leonard Cohen

john walker: humming the traitor song

…The problem of villains and spies and is one of the more bedevilling issues within the broader context of evil and villainy. In fact, for many the existence of evil in a world under divine supervision is quite disconcerting. In … Continue reading

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sailing against idiot winds

…Chris Hitchens would have disagreed, but the question can be posed nonetheless as to whether reason can accept Divine Revelation, the proposition that god can, and does communicate with the individual? To the believer, reason is no obstacle to the … Continue reading

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judging joan

Those judgements of Joan.Her trial and execution were only the beginning. In the centuries since,the Maid has continued to provoke both anger and adoration, skepticism and awe. There have been many fluctuations in Joan’s fame… In 1429, when Joan so … Continue reading

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boundaries and limits

Does light always shine through the cracks. What if the foundation is cracked? Well, it can be fixed, probably cheaper than a tear down. Leonard Cohen once said in a song that “Judaism is full of cracks, that’s how the … Continue reading

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trial and sedition: tribute money and pay now plan

This triumph must have made the Jewish Revolt very real to the people of Rome; it was designed to render them vividly aware of the gravity of the danger from which the new emperor and his son had delivered them. … Continue reading

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judging a cover by its book

Biblical prophecy is always a fascinating subject, dealing as it does with the hope of golden age, a repairing of the world, a making whole, a redemption mixed with the equal propensity for apocalyptic destruction. It predates the secular utopianism … Continue reading

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100 red carpets for the sun

Seeing Irving Layton in action was poetry as performance art. The phycicality, the gesticulation, the booming delivery, the sublimation, the modulation. A spectacle vascillating between erotic vulgarity, a sort of testosterone based infantilism, yet enigmatically mixed with the redemptive promise … Continue reading

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layton & those wild peculiar joys

Quite a mixed bag in looking at Irving Lyton on his 100th birthday. Not everything was gold, but there was in sum, a spiritual consciousness with the man, a leaving to the control of the instinct as sign of his … Continue reading

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the pause between seconds

Asking the Bisonics what their musical influences are is like trying to coax quicksilver into a mason jar on the first crack. So intrigued by the disc “seconds” that I had to, dared venture to ask. Its the kind of … Continue reading

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the smell of smoke

Is art an effective means of dealing with a painful subject; after all, art’s form does not preclude the possibility of subject matter and emotions of the most intense and and appalling natureĀ  leading the aesthetic to serve as basis … Continue reading

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