“The Past is Perfect”: Leonard Cohen’s Philosophy of Time (thesis by Dr. Natalia Vesselova)

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“The Past is Perfect”: Leonard Cohen’s Philosophy of Time (thesis by Dr. Natalia Vesselova)

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A 400-page must-read: https://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/1 ... thesis.pdf
“The Past is Perfect”: Leonard Cohen’s Philosophy of Time
Natalia Vesselova

Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the Doctorate in Philosophy degree in English

Department of English
Faculty of Arts
University of Ottawa.

© Natalia Vesselova, Ottawa, Canada, 2014
... Special attention to
Chapter Two: Prose Left in the Past: Unpublished Works 1952-1960
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Thanks Roman,

This sounds interesting!
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8) Magnificent 8) that this has been done. In flipping, I landed on the exploration of "The past is perfect" sign. Thanks for bringing this to us, Roman :D
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the link is dead now. :cry:

after a bit googling
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/ ... -31065.pdf
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