It's weird that Leonard Cohen should leave us at a moment when US democracy seems to be heading in the wrong direction. It's weird, too, that I'm celebrating memories of this great man on a public holiday in France: the 11th day of the 11th month, Armistice Day.
Towards the end of my Israel-inspired novel All the Earth is Mine [lookup in Amazon], I included an excerpt from Cohen's song. In my tale, the entire land of Israel is transformed by modern technology into a gigantic floating island, which spends its new existence sailing around the planet Earth.
Sail on, sail on, oh mighty ship of state
To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed
To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed
Though the squalls of hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on...
— Leonard Cohen, Democracy
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