Leonard Cohen - Let Us Compare Mythologies

Original edition copyright Leonard Cohen, 1956 This book was first published by Contact Press in 1956. First McClelland & Stewart edition 1969. This edition 2018. All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisheror, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agencyis an infringement of the copyright law. McClelland & Stewart and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House Canada Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016, author Let us compare mythologies / Leonard Cohen.

Originally published: Montreal: Contact Press, 1956. Poems. Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 9780771024535 (softcover).ISBN 9780771024542 (EPUB) I. Title. PS8505.O22L4 2018 C811.54 C2018-901612-4 C2018-901613-2 Book design by Five Seventeen McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, a Penguin Random House Company www.penguinrandomhouse.ca

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This title contains long lines of poetry. The line of characters below indicates approximately the longest line in the text: or a Nova Scotian fleeing from the rocks and preachers To most accurately reproduce the layout of the text on the printed page, you may choose to decrease the size of the text on your viewer and/or change the orientation of your screen until the above line of characters fits on a single line. This may not be possible on all e-reading devices. Viewing this title at a higher than optimal text size or on a screen too small to accommodate the longest lines in the text will alter the reading experience and may cause single lines of some poems to display as multiple lines of text. If this occurs, the turn of the line will be marked with a shallow indent. All right he said.

Listen, and read again, but only one stanza this time and closed the book and laid it on the table. She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, McCaslin said: Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair. Hes talking about a girl, he said. He had to talk about something, McCaslin said. The Bear, by William Faulkner