from marianne's photo album

[Geoffrey]

an old picture of leonard and marianne appeared some time ago on this website:
http://cohencentric.com/2016/07/30/hear ... -together/

here is a slightly clearer and more complete copy of the same picture

[Cate]

what a good looking couple!
Leonard looks like he should be heading off to work at an advertising agency.

[Geoffrey]

what a good looking couple!
Leonard looks like he should be heading off to work at an advertising agency.

right, and it looks like it's the same raincoat he wears years later on that symmetrical CD cover where he's walking over a bridge - ha ha ha!!!

[solongleonard]

Beautiful photo. I am not clear though - which one is which?

[Geoffrey]

Beautiful photo. I am not clear though - which one is which?

leonard is the one with the rhett butler moustache, flasher raincoat and drainpipe trousers. marianne is the one with knee-length boots, roy orbison glasses, bag in right hand, and who only fastens her coat with the top white button because the lower four are too dark to see with those sunglasses on. as a body language expert i note that she holds onto him while he just has his hands in his pockets. read into that what you will. she looks happy, like any woman who has captured a man, while his countenance is one of suspicion. you understand now?

[solongleonard]

Beautiful photo. I am not clear though - which one is which?

leonard is the one with the rhett butler moustache, flasher raincoat and drainpipe trousers. marianne is the one with knee-length boots, roy orbison glasses, bag in right hand, and who only fastens her coat with the top white button because the lower four are too dark to see with those sunglasses on. as a body language expert i note that she holds onto him while he just has his hands in his pockets. read into that what you will. she looks happy, like any woman who has captured a man, while his countenance is one of suspicion. you understand now?

I hear but do I understand? To what level of understandingness posit you thine enquiry?

My research reveals that this is the very scene where a rampant couple exchanged the famous words as followeth

M - you say you love me, Lenworth, but is there any visible proof of that, and does your lust still lay doormat and sleeping, small man. I despaireth of thou

L - but Marianna, thou treateth me unkindnessly, it's "so long, Marianna, just like a banana etc etc"

Please note that "etcetra etcetra is to be sung by the accompanying Orchestra, who stalked the lovers throughout the 24 years of their marriage.

I really like know my stuff, like yeah?

[Vicomte]

I am not fooled, that is Peter Sellers

[Geoffrey]

I am not fooled, that is Peter Sellers

[Vicomte]

Aha, Leonard Cohen

[solongleonard]

Aha, Leonard Cohen

Have you learned nowt? That is Mohammed Ali And Geoffrey has whupped you again