LOVE AND LUST AND AMELIA FOX: Not so epically egregious…..

[greynotsoold]

So there aren't any nude pictures of Amelia Fox? No videos of her shaking her ass? How did she get a name like that?

[Andre]

So there aren't any nude pictures of Amelia Fox? No videos of her shaking her ass? How did she get a name like that?

Probably about as close as you are going to get mate.

[RonPrice]

Gandalf's above encouragement, nicely balanced by the discouraging tendencies of others, help to provide a thread that functions as a fertile mix for the following on the themes of love and lust:
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RESPONDING TO THE WORLD

Part 1:

I first came across Leonard Cohen in the early months of 1968 when I was living on Baffin Island. Leonard Cohen had come to the music industry relatively late, having already established himself as a published novelist and poet, especially in the Montreal area, a city I only visited once or twice before leaving Canada in 1971.

Cohen turned his hand to music when his song 'Suzanne' became a hit for Judy Collins; in 1967 he went into the studio to cut his debut album for Columbia. Gerard Fannon, in his “Album Review: Songs of Leonard Cohen Columbia 1967” on 8 January 2009,(1) wrote that: “The ten songs on the album are beautifully constructed. Few lyricists have since been able to wrestle with the ideas of love, loss and longing quite so intelligently, articulately and ambiguously as Leonard Cohen. He depicts a world entirely at the mercy of the chaos that arises from love and lust, mastery and submission, the supplicant and the worshiped. Though his words may seem lofty or pretentious, they convey a deep-rooted sense of humanity.”

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“Many artists work their whole career", Fannon continues, “to create a work of such singular artistic vision as Songs of Leonard Cohen, and it is even more remarkable that Cohen achieved this the first time he set foot in a studio. Songs of Leonard Cohen remains an astonishing and enduring debut. -Ron Price with thanks to (1)the internet site: Suite101.com

I heard you again when they gave you
a tribute at the Sydney Opera House in
2005, Leonard, & I noted some of what
you had to say about writing: you wanted
to respond to the beauty in the world; you
do not command your work--it commands
you; you’ll never untangle life’s mysteries.

You do not dwell on the past or the future.
Fame and wealth came so early to you
with your first book of poetry and novel
before you were thirty. My writing took
decades longer; I really only got going in
my fifties and had to unload my career as
a teacher and all that community work so
that I could free my spirit to respond to the
beauty around me and engage symbiotically
with my real-life master-piece....if it is that..

My writing became my epic opus, my oeuvre,
by sensible and insensible degrees due to the
mysterious dispensations of Providence which,
as you say, Leonard, one never really untangles,
nor the leaven which leavens the world of being
and furnishes the power by which the wonders of
the world--the sciences and the arts--are manifest.

Ron Price
16/2/'09 to 12/6/'14.