"There is change, and departure: but there is also help when least looked for from the strangers of the day, and hiding, out among the accidents of this drifting Humility, never quite to be extinguished, a few small chances for mercy."
Wednesday 19 August 2015
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In 1988, Cohen explained to John McKenna of RTE Ireland
that "Story of Isaac" was an anti-protest song but added, "I was
careful in that song to try and put it beyond the pure, beyond the
simple, anti-war protest, that it also is. Because it says at the end
there the man of war the man of peace, the peacock
spreads his deadly fan. In other words it isn't necessarily for war
that we're willing to sacrifice each other. We'll get some idea - some
magnificent idea - that we're willing to sacrifice each other for; it
doesn't necessarily have to involve an opponent or an ideology, but
human beings being what they are we're always going to set up people to
die for some absurd situation that we define as important."
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