and then our exile

ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
you'd been to the station to meet every train
and you came home without lili marlene

- mr. leonard cohen, who apparently woke up from his buddhistic meditation to find he was almost broke. it was on cbc a while back.

on cbc yesterday, about global warming, and how we should all prepare to die. i am serious: it is serious.

driving into the city the other day, saw picketers sitting on their CBC-truck hoods kicking their feet, with signs like "LOCKED OUT BY CBC".

i thought of something yesterday: the "la madhhabiyyah" would, if literal definitions were considered, be called "liberals". amusing when you think of who usually falls under the label.

"history is a nightmare from which i am trying to wake up"
- joyce's dedalus.