RIP Leonard Cohen

Have seen several eulogies and Titus Techera's at NRO strikes me as the most incisive.

No musician has acquired as much fame in our times for telling the ugly truth about love, so we should look again to learn what he has to teach. Love reveals an existential vulnerability — living is by itself living dangerously. Sometimes, Cohen treated love with a knowing humor to soften the blows and to avoid creating idols. Other times, he turned to the troubled mood of the lover to discover the place of man in the world. At his best, he treated as a search for God the way love reveals man’s loneliness. 

I always felt uncomfortable classifying Cohen as a singer-songwriter. Like a handful of others, what he created went way beyond what lesser troubadours accepted as the constraints of their craft.