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Letters\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENicknames for Leonard Cohen\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ELord Byron Of Rock’n’Roll\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBard Of The Boudoir\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ELadies Man\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EGrandson Of The Prince Of Grammarians\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMaster Of Erotic Despair\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMaster Of Romantic Despair\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EHigh Priest Of Pathos\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPoet Laureate Of Pessimism\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EGrocer Of Despair\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EProphet of Despair\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPoet Laureate Of Commitophobes\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBard Of Bedsits\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDr. Kevorkian Of Song\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBeautiful Creep\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EGodfather Of Gloom\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPrince Of Bummers\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ETroubadour Of Travail\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ELaughing Len\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ELaughing Lennie\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ECaptain Mandrax\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPoet of Rock and Roll\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMaster of the Egg Salad Sandwich\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPoet of the Holy Sinners\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPoet Of Existential Despair\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EJikan, Jikan The Useless Monk, Silent One\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPoet Of Bedsit Angst\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EGloom Merchant\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBourgeois Individualist Poet\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EGrand Master of Melancholia\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDurable Hipster\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ELegendary Ladies Man\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EExistential Comedian\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ESpin Doctor For The Apocalypse\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EGrizzled Prophet\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDamaged Priest\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EHippie Icon\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EApocalyptic Lounge Lizard\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EJeremiah Of Tin Pan Alley\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAmiable Gangster\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPoetic Playboy\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EEmotional Imperialist\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ERestless Pilgrim\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPatron Saint Of Angst\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ESmiling Dada Of Despair\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMontreal Mensch\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPrince of Pain and Crown Prince of Pain\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EJoking Troubadour of Gloom and Troubadour of Gloom\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMaster Of Sexy Melancholy\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EHigh Priest Of Solitude\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDisappearing Mr. Mysterioso\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMaster Of Misery\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMaestro Of Melancholy\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPoet Of Love\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPatron Saint Of Disappointment\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPrince of Precision\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPoet Of Pleasure And Pain\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBard of Our Great Depression\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EGodfather Of Miserablism\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ECoolest White Man On The Planet\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPoet Of Swinging Suicides\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMaster Of Duende\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBleak Baritone\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ETroubadour Of Love\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ECat In The Hat\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EMel Torme of the Terminally Downbeat\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI like this list because it’s funny, but also because of how … \u003Ci\u003Ededicated\u003C\/i\u003E it is, like its compiler, Dr. H. Guy, whose website \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1heckofaguy.com\/leonard-cohen-aka-the-nicknames\/\"\u003E1HeckofaGuy\u003C\/a\u003E (where the list is posted) is not just about Leonard Cohen, but mostly  it is. I wonder if Umberto Eco knows about the list, perhaps I’ll find a  mention of it in his book, possibly in Chapter 9, “The rhetoric of  enumeration”. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe would certainly appreciate\u0026nbsp;Dr. Guy's use of scholarly footnotes.  Myself, I had a moment of confusion due to mixing up the footnote  numbers with the nickname numbers, which made it seem as though “The  Master of the Egg Salad Sandwich” appeared in a Jewish newspaper whereas  it actually came from Leonard Cohen’s girlfriend.\u0026nbsp;This did give me a  chance to learn about Montreal’s Jewish literary scene and LC’s views on  Israel, though, while I was trying to figure\u0026nbsp;out the Jewish connection  with Egg Salad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1b9m613yi0qa0r935crzosac.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/artolog-495x737.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"artolog-495x737\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1b9m613yi0qa0r935crzosac.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/artolog-495x737.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EPhoto by Art Siegel\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003EThe website contains many other Leonard Cohen gems –  quotes\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;photos old and new, plus things like how to know if you're at  a Bruce Springsteen concert or a Leonard Cohen concert, not to mention a  commemorative video made by Dr. Guy in celebration of LC’s 2008-2009  World Tour, with the fantastic title:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDear Leonard Cohen – Thanks For The Tour.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EI Hope It Was Good For You, Too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIf, like me, you missed the concert, the one Bookman Beattie says was the best live concert he has ever been to, get the DVD \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandcitylibraries.com\/?itemid=%7Clibrary\/marc\/acl-iii%7Cb2355633\"\u003ELeonard Cohen Live in London\u003C\/a\u003E from the library. It won’t be like\u0026nbsp;having been there, but it's definitely memorable all the\u0026nbsp;same.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThat's great, but how does this connect to Books?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003EIt's because back in the 1960s, Leonard Cohen wrote two novels, \u003Ci\u003EThe Favourite Game \u003C\/i\u003Eand \u003Ci\u003EBeautiful Losers\u003C\/i\u003E. And...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year Auckland City Libraries inaugurated a Reading Challenge,  in which people read their way across a tic-tac-toe card where each  square was labelled with a different genre – crime, romance, adventure  etc. - to go in the draw for a prize. Hundreds of readers proved to be  happy to give the road less travelled by a chance, but as readers are  creative souls, there were some fun discussions at check-out time when  it came to deciding which squares qualified to be stamped. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-2MiGrna1mKs\/VCVwZMI_5GI\/AAAAAAAAAmw\/yqedOvGKwrc\/s1600\/beautiful%2Blosers.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-2MiGrna1mKs\/VCVwZMI_5GI\/AAAAAAAAAmw\/yqedOvGKwrc\/s1600\/beautiful%2Blosers.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EMy favourite was the one Stevie at Central Library told me about, a woman who wanted\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EBeautiful Losers\u003C\/i\u003E to count for her “Romance” square. This is what happens when they  republish books and put artistic new covers on them. Now it's a photo of  Leonard Cohen (or a Leonard Cohenish figure in fedora hat and raincoat)  in the Underground with a pithy quote from Michael Ondaatje, but  the original cover featured the author’s own list – worthy of being  included in \u003Ci\u003EThe infinity of lists'\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003EChapter 16, “Coherent excess”– of  what his book was about:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\"BEAUTIFUL LOSERS is a love story, a psalm, a Black Mass, a  monument, a satire, a prayer, a shriek, a road map through the  wilderness, a joke, a tasteless affront, an hallucination, a bore, an  irrelevant display of diseased virtuosity, a Jesuitical tract, an Orange  sneer, a scatological Lutheran extravagance, in short, a disagreeable  religious epic of incomparable beauty.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe \"in short\" reminds me of the famous Leonard Cohen story where  an interviewer asked him to describe himself in five words, and he  replied \"Oh, the seven deadly sins.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/6\/6a\/Eastwick.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/6\/6a\/Eastwick.jpg\" width=\"137\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EAre you thinking, well at least she didn’t try to say it was “Chick lit”?\u0026nbsp; Yes, you're right,\u0026nbsp;she didn't.\u0026nbsp;It was\u0026nbsp;John Updike's \u003Ci\u003EThe Witches of Eastwick\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Ethat she wanted to claim\u0026nbsp;for\u0026nbsp;that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;************\u003Cbr \/\u003Eif you'd like to try the books:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandcitylibraries.com\/?itemid=%7Clibrary\/marc\/acl-iii%7Cb1665981\"\u003EThe favourite game\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;by Leonard Cohen\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandcitylibraries.com\/?itemid=%7Clibrary\/marc\/acl-iii%7Cb1665980\"\u003EBeautiful Losers\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003Eby Leonard Cohen\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandcitylibraries.com\/?itemid=%7Clibrary\/marc\/acl-iii%7Cb2307633\"\u003EThe witches of Eastwick\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003Eby John Updike"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3535686193850229918\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/the-list-of-leonard-cohen-nicknames.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3535686193850229918"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3535686193850229918"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/the-list-of-leonard-cohen-nicknames.html","title":"The List of Leonard Cohen nicknames"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"tosca"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DKeaBNqmKUo\/VBStvJvL4cI\/AAAAAAAAR4M\/ZsfOjoSDymI\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-2MiGrna1mKs\/VCVwZMI_5GI\/AAAAAAAAAmw\/yqedOvGKwrc\/s72-c\/beautiful%2Blosers.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});