One spring day, Ihlen was with her infant son in a grocery store and café. Jensen was not a constant husband, however, and, by the time their child was four months old, Jensen was, as Marianne put it, “over the hills again” with another woman. She had married Jensen, and they had a son, little Axel. Her grandmother used to tell her, “You are going to meet a man who speaks with a tongue of gold.” She thought she already had: Axel Jensen, a novelist from home, who wrote in the tradition of Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. Her name was Marianne Ihlen, and she had grown up in the countryside near Oslo. Here and there, Cohen caught glimpses of a beautiful Norwegian woman. “Generally, I ended up with a bad hangover.” “I took trip after trip, sitting on my terrace in Greece, waiting to see God,” he said years later. There were drugs to expand it: pot, speed, acid. There were days of fasting to concentrate the mind. He collected a few paraffin lamps and some used furniture: a Russian wrought-iron bed, a writing table, chairs like “the chairs that van Gogh painted.” During the day, he worked on a sexy, phantasmagoric novel called “The Favorite Game” and the poems in a collection titled “Flowers for Hitler.” He alternated between extreme discipline and the varieties of abandon. Hydra promised the life Cohen had craved: spare rooms, the empty page, eros after dark. Eventually, he bought a whitewashed house of his own, for fifteen hundred dollars, thanks to an inheritance from his grandmother. Cohen rented a place for fourteen dollars a month. Mules humped water up the long stairways to the houses. There was something mythical and primitive about Hydra. With the chill barely out of his bones, Cohen took in the horseshoe-shaped harbor and the people drinking cold glasses of retsina and eating grilled fish in the cafés by the water he looked up at the pines and the cypress trees and the whitewashed houses that crept up the hillsides. Not long afterward, he alighted in Athens, visited the Acropolis, made his way to the port of Piraeus, boarded a ferry, and disembarked at the island of Hydra. The teller said that he had just returned from a trip to Greece. After weeks of cold and rain, he wandered into a bank and asked the teller about his deep suntan. An English dentist had just yanked one of his wisdom teeth. In a letter to his publisher, he said that he was out to reach “inner-directed adolescents, lovers in all degrees of anguish, disappointed Platonists, pornography-peepers, hair-handed monks and Popists.”Ĭohen was growing weary of London’s rising damp and its gray skies. Even before he had much of an audience, he had a distinct idea of the audience he wanted. He was a bohemian with a cushion whose first purchases in London were an Olivetti typewriter and a blue raincoat at Burberry. Cohen, whose family was both prominent and cultivated, had an ironical view of himself. In those days, he was a Jamesian Jew, the provincial abroad, a refugee from the Montreal literary scene. This was 1960, long before he played the festival at the Isle of Wight in front of six hundred thousand people. He got by on a three-thousand-dollar grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. When Leonard Cohen was twenty-five, he was living in London, sitting in cold rooms writing sad poems. Photograph by Graeme Mitchell for The New Yorker Charter Azimut 116 Flawless IIIĪvailable for charter, to find out more about this superyacht please contact your personal Azimut charter broker.Leonard Cohen at home in Los Angeles in September, 2016. Purchase Azimut 116 Flawless IIIĪvailable for sale, to find out more about this superyacht please contact your personal Azimut yacht specialist. Her water tanks carry 2800 litres of fresh water. With her 18000 litres fuel tanks she has a maximum range of nautical miles economic cruising speed. Motor Azimut 116 Flawless III is capable of a top speed of 25 knots, and comfortably cruises at 23 knots. Powered by 2 X MTU 16V 2000 M91 2 x 2000 HP engines and driven by Shaft drive She was built to classification society rules.Īzimut 116 Flawless III is equipped with a Underway and at anchor stabilisation system which reduces roll motion effect and results in a smoother more enjoyable cruising experience underway. Construction & dimensionsĪzimut 116 Flawless III features a Planing GRP hull and GRP superstructure. Timeless styling, beautiful furnishings and sumptuous seating feature throughout to create an elegant and comfortable atmosphere.Īzimut 116 Flawless III impressive leisure and entertainment facilities make her the ideal yacht for socialising and entertaining with family and friends. She is also capable of carrying up to 5 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience. The Motor Azimut 116 Flawless III luxury interior sleeps up to 10 guests in 5 staterooms.
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