Various Positions (46 page)

38
“having this house”:
LC
to Wog [Daniel Kraslavsky], 19 December 1961,
UT
.

39
“The years are flying”:
LC
to?, 16 December 1961,
UT
.

40
“The primitive circumstances”: FR 29.

41
“the first Hebrew”:
LC
5/11/94.

42
“everything you saw”:
LC,
“Comme un Guerrier,”
Throat Culture
59.

43
“You knew everything”:
LC,
“Comme un Guerrier,”
Throat Culture
59.

44
“There’s sun all over”:
LC
to IL, 8 December 1961,
UT
.

45
“There’s something in the light”:
LC
in Michael Ballantyne, “Poet-Novelist Reflects on the Quebec
Scene
,”
Montreal Star
(26 October 1963) 2.

46
“Hydra—you can’t live”:
LC
10/24/95.

47
“all the old potent guilts”:
LC
to “My dear friends,” (15 December 1960)
UT
.

48
“Since hearing the news”:
LC
to EC, 15 December 1960,
UT
.

49
“It took me some time”:
LC
to Maryann Greene 16 February 1961,
UT
.

50
“I have finished”:
LC
to Jake and Stella Pullman, 19 December 1961,
UT
.

51
“a protracted love-affair”:
LC
to DP, 23 February 1961,
UT
.

52
“every event described”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
12 October 1960,
UT
.

53
“wanted to tell about”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
12 October 1960,
UT
.

54
“He managed to offend”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
9 March 1962,
UT
.

55
“I will always consider”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
9 March 1962,
UT
.

56
“miserable … behalf”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
8 December 1961; 26 July 1962,
UT
.

57
“a book without alibis”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
4 July 1963,
UT
.

58
“perhaps its only value”:
LC
to Seymour Lawrence, 29 October 1961,
UT
.

59
“my work limps along”:
LC
to EC, 29 October 1
961,
UT
.

60
“It doesn’t matter to me”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
2 November 1
961,
UT
.

61
“absolutely beautiful writing”: anon., Sheila Watson to
LC,
29 January 1962,
UT
.

62
“too long”: SW to
LC,
8 May 1962.

63
“Three in the morning”:
LC
to friends, 15? December 1960,
UT
.

64
“Except for this tiny”:
LC
to Bim, 17 February 1
961,
UT
.

65
“We did it simply by”:
LC
in
Canadian Theatre Review
14 (1977) 54.

66
“macabre, compelling thing”: IL to DP, 11 December 1960.

1
“I am wild”:
LC
to Anne Hébert,? January-February 1
961,
UT
.

2
“I had this mythology”: Tom Chaffin, “Conversations from a Room,”
Canadian Forum
(August/September 1983) 10.

3
“the day you left”: CP to
LC,
27 March 1961,
UT
.

4
“The island”: F
GL
to parents, 5 April 1930,
Poet in New York
, tr. Greg Smith and Steven F. White (NY: Noonday Press, 1988) 255.

5
“presence urgently requested”:
LC
5/11/94.

6
“I was Upton Sinclair”:
LC
5/11/94.

7
“Your mother’s worried”:
LC
5/11/94.

8
“This is no time”: IL to DP, 15 April 1961.

9
“Just think”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
18 April 1961,
UT
.

10
“It’s going to be”:
LC
5/11/94.

11
“to see a socialist revolution”:
LC
to Victor Cohen, 9 November 1962,
UT
.

12
“I’m one of the few men”:
LC
to VC, 9 November 1962.

13
“deep interest in violence”:
Ladies and Gentlemen … Mr. Leonard Cohen
(NPB
film), 1965.

14
“The city was Havana”: “The Famous Havana Diary,”
TS,
UT
1.

15
“I enjoyed her”: “The Famous Havana Diary,”
TS,
UT
4–5.

16
“oppressive and repugnant”:
LC
to VC, 9 November 1962,
UT
.

17
“Power chops up”:
LC
to Cork Smith, 1 September 1963,
UT
.

18
“a tragic figure”: IL to DP, 4 May 1961.

19
“Communism is less sinister”:
LC
to Lonie?, 4 September 1961,
UT
.

20
“Dorian Grayish”: IL to DP, 13 May 1961.

21
“Leonard Cohen, 27”: dustjacket,
SBE
.

22
“For you”: “The Genius,”
SBE
87.

23
“probably the best”: Robert Weaver, “Leonard Cohen’s
Spice-Box
Presents Sombre Vision,”
Toronto Daily Star
(10 June 1961) 29.

24
“The Lean and the Luscious”: David Bromige, “The Lean and the Luscious,”
Canadian Literature
10 (Autumn 1961) 87–88.

25
“easily the most promising”: Desmond Pacey,
Creative Writing in Canada
(1952; New edition, revised and enlarged, Toronto: Ryerson, 1961) 247.

26
“There isn’t a single”: IL to DP, 12 April 1962.

27
“Psychologically, I think”: IL to DP, 12 April 1962.

28
“His passport was”:
LC
to Robert Weaver, 20 May 1961,
UT
.

29
“Your purity”: “Alexander Trocchi,” FH 47.

30
“yield profits”:
LC
to Canada Council, 2 June 1961,
UT
.

31
“distance is essential”:
LC
to Canada Council, 2 June 1961,
UT
.

32
“I remind them”:
LC
to Shaar Hashomayim Hadassah, 11 June 1961.

33
“they weep most of the day”:
LC
to EC, 13 July 1961,
UT
.

34
“that makes”:
LC
to EC, 13 July 1961,
UT
.

35
“rooted on the rock”: LC to EC, 13 July 1961,
UT
.

36
“his Gothic insincerities”:
LC,
dustjacket,
The Favourite Game
(London: Secker & Warburg, 1963.

37
“Thank god for”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
18 August 1961,
UT
.

38
“I gather the Greek wines”: IL to DP, 28 August, 1961.

39
“dig deep”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
18 August 1961.

40
“I chose a lonely country”: “For E.J.P.,”
FH
69.

41
“you just felt good”:
LC
in “Comme un Guerrier,”
Throat Culture
59.

42
“there is my beautiful house”:
LC
to RW, 22 November 1962,
UT
.

43
“Of men the sky demands”: “Here Was the Harbour,”
PH
45.

44
“everywhere is going Communist”:
LC
to EC, 7 October 1961,
UT
.

45
“My abandoned narcotics”: “Indictment of the Blue Hole,”
FH
19.

46
“Is there anything emptier”: “The Drawer’s Condition,”
FH
16.

47
“I’ve smoked”:
LC
to Madeleine?, 12 November
1961,
UT
.

48
“In this part of the planet”: “We are getting to know the police better,” TS 1965,
UT
[3–4].

49
“I write a year’s verse”:
LC
to John B. Oakes,? October 1961,
UT
.

50
“the next book”:
LC
to CP 18, September
1961, U?
.

51
“It’s so simple”: “For Marianne,” FH 52–53.

52
“seems to have endured”:
LC
to IL, 8 December 1961,
UT
.

53
“Lead me into families”: “For a long while,”
PH
51.

54
“Something in the air”: LC to EC, 18 April 1962,
UT
.

55
“I’ve been working on”:
LC
to EC, 18 April 1962,
UT
.

56
“it’s so melancholy”:
LC
to EC, 22 April 1962,
UT
.

57
“Eating and kissing”:
LC
to Stephen Vizicenzy, 27 April 1962,
UT
.

58
“Norway is blonde”:
LC
to RW, 14 May 1962,
UT
.

59
“I can be seen Twisting”:
LC
to RW, 14 May 1962,
UT
.

60
“Strange to find myself”:
LC
to Yafa Lerner, 16 December 1961,
LCA
.

61
“This is the same novel”:
LC
to Peter Dwyer, 31 January 1962,
UT
.

62
“be interested in publishing”:
LC
to
JM
c
CL,
6 March 1962,
UT
.

63
“it’s the kind of chutzpa”:
LC
to Rabbi Samuel Cass, 6 March 1962,
UT
.

64
“London is horrible”:
LC
to RW, 6 March 1962,
UT
.

65
“Over the two years”:
LC
to Daniel Kraslavsky, 10 March 1962,
LCA
.

66
“twice as slowly”:
LC
to Madeleine?, [10?] March 1962,
LCA
.

67
“terrified of waking up”:
LC
to Madeleine?, [10?] March 1962,
LCA
.

68
“fight for some tiny”:
LC
to Madeline?, [10?] March 1962,
LCA
.

69
“I feel I’ve lost”:
LC
to Madeline?, [10?] March 1962,
LCA
.

70
“There are a million things”:
LC
to Marianne Ihlen, 10 March 1962,
LCA
.

71
“I long for you”:
LC
to Marianne Ihlen, 10 March 1962,
LCA
.

72
“just as I always”:
LC
to MC, 10 March 1962,
LCA
.

73
“the things which are given”:
LC
to MC, 10 March 1962,
LCA
.

74
“the secret of my triumph”:
LC
to MC, 10 March 1962,
LCA
.

75
“I want to tear”:
LC
to IL, 23 March 1962,
LCA
.

76
“Too bad because”:
LC
to EC, 26 March 1962,
LCA
.

77
“beautiful book”:
LC
to EC, 26 March 1962,
LCA
.

78
“What a joyless farce”:
LC
to EC, 26 March 1962,
LCA
.

79
“It’s the first time”:
LC
to EC, 26 March 1962,
LCA
.

1
“in the last six thousand years”:
LC
to MC, 20 May 1962,
UT
.

2
“My house is big”:
LC
to MC, 20 May 1962,
UT
.

3
“Buying this house”:
LC
to MC, 30 May 1962,
UT
.

4
“She’s a little overwhelmed”:
LC
to EC, 29 June 1962,
UT
.

5
“all the old chaos”:
LC
to Madeleine? 30 June 1962,
UT
.

6
“nothing sounds any good”:
LC
to Roland Gant, 26 July 1962,
UT
.

7
“I don’t intend to open”:
LC
to EC, 13 August 1961,
UT
.

8
“whom I had never spoken to”:
LC
to EC, 30 April 1963,
UT
.

9
“I’ve greeted people”:
LC
to EC, 2 July 1963,
UT
.

10
“intolerably touristic”:
LC
to EC, 2 July 1963,
UT
.

11
“It is hard to be”:
LC
to Renee Rothman, 2 July 1963,
UT
.

12
“eliminated a kind of self-conscious”:
LC
to RG, 26 August 1962,
UT
.