What character could possibly engage my boredom that exquisite spoiled princess in the palace of my failure? [...]

I believe she longs for a woman. [...]

She wants to wear delicate men's trouser and live with this woman in a port town where they will perfect sweet rituals such as walking together at twilight smoking cigarillos past shadowy retired fishermen who learn to accept them as another species of bird which they would judge no more fiercely than the seagull or the heron.

I could have created such a woman out of the one or two women who loved me, but in those days I had no taste for monsters, although I must say that they did.

Leonard Cohen

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