@Priceless "I shall be mostly listening to Cohen today
🙂" - A day well spent - and describes most of my days. Check out Sharon Robinson singing Alexandra Leaving. She and Cohen co-wrote it. The paper I was writing (that still hasn't manifested itself because I spend too much time on here) was originally based on the song. To my mind, there are two voices at play - an external voice alluding to events leading up to Touched and the scene in the stranger's house and a second interior voice on the edge of Spike's conscious reflecting on the past and giving him fortitude for what will follow. The latter combines two voices - Spike talking and Spike listening (in italics). Spike listening is a sign of his increasing maturity. I think - in the initial moment he joins her on the bed , he's carrying the weight of his 120+ years. The song's based on the poem The God Abandons Antony by Constantine P. Cavafy - I think William would like it. (
Dear All - Sorry for the over-indulgence here. It's Spuffy right? So I can indulge - right?) 😳
Suddenly the night has grown colder
The god of love preparing to depart
Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder,
They slip between the sentries of the heart
Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure
They gain the light, they formlessly entwine
And radiant beyond your widest measure
They fall among the voices and the wine
It's not a trick, your senses all deceiving
A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust
Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving
Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost
As someone long prepared for the occasion;
In full command of every plan you wrecked---
Do not choose a coward's explanation
that hides behind the cause and the effect,
You who were bewildered by a meaning,
whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed---
Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
I'll answer the new question and post later. Merged posts make the crap I write even crappier.
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