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The speaker is joking about aging and suggests that a sedentary life can affect how a person looks. The self-description also shows a dry, self-aware sense of humor.
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Originally said in English.
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About Leonard Cohen
Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist
Leonard Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. He is known for work that moves between song and literature, and for a career that made him a major figure in Canadian and international music. His writing and songs often explore faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, as well as love, desire, regret, loss, and social and political conflict. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 2011, he received a Prince of Asturias Award for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize.
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Books by Leonard Cohen
Book of Longing
2006
The flame
2018
The favourite game
1963
Stranger music
1993