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LC's typewriter
Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 3:28 am
by Maarten
Hello,
I read about Leonard's typewriter being an Olivetti lettera 22.
http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/yakyak.htm
An olive green Olivetti 22 portable typewriter, with black keys and white letters. I bought it in London for forty pounds in 1959. It's the same typewriter I used for my first book and my best works.
http://www.ssb4.net//members/watch/enla ... 010005.jpg
Is this the kind of typewriter he used to use in the early days?
And was it indeed an "olive green" one?
Anyone?
Regards,
Maarten
Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 3:59 am
by Tchocolatl
Forget about the machine. Thanks to have bring my attention there.
Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 9:03 am
by jarkko
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 10:40 am
by tomsakic
Jarkko, do you have the colour photo of LC typing Beautiful Losers on that typewriter... I used to see here and there?
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 2:41 pm
by jarkko
Tom, I remember the photo but I don't think I've ever posted it on my site. Maybe it's on Marie's???
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 3:57 pm
by tomsakic
Maybe I have the photo at my home computer. I think now that its' not even colour, but rendered intot he yellow-green tone... I used to see it on top of some trading' lists (olafur's i.e.) and on art covers people made for Master Poems CD by themselves... I'll try to find it these days.
I found this thru google:
Leonard Cohen sits
in a house in Greece.
Its walls are white
and outside his window
the sea is a blue never
used before. In the
next room a woman
sleeps, a stranger.
Leonard Cohen puts his
fingers on his typewriter.
The room hums.
He begins by typing a
single word: lonely.
Poem by Corey Mesler,
dotlit
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:07 pm
by tomsakic
I think I found it, on Henning's site. It is b&w - I obviously saw toned copy, as I said.
It's fun to look for LC's photos thru Google - I found one showing him and Adam playing guitars! Nice photo, I don't think I noticed it around before.
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:08 pm
by linda_lakeside
Tom!
Great photos!! Esp. the top one.
. He looks a bit like a lawyer in the bottom photo, doesn't he? The top pic is a keeper!
Linda.
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:10 pm
by linda_lakeside
Uh, the order of the pics has changed since I typed my little message. He no longer looks like a lawyer in the bottom photo. He sorta looks like me, right now.
Linda.
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:13 pm
by tomsakic
I noticed Linda, that you are thanking me for Tchoco's and Jarkko's posted pics...
Here's to you Tchoco (I guess you'll know why exactly this picture:-)
http://cohen.freeweb.hu/pics/page_01.htm
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:59 pm
by linda_lakeside
Oh, my! Yes, I guess I had my thanks mixed up...thanks all for the pics (as well as this one!). Great page.
Linda.
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 7:01 pm
by Paula
Tom - that is a lovely picture. That would look nice in a frame. The father and son reunion lovely.
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 9:40 pm
by lizzytysh
At least via the photo, there's a special and different kind of warmth in Leonard's eyes and smile in the beautiful photo of him with Adam. I like the concentration in Adam's eyes and expression, and he also looks very contented. I wonder if that photo resides on the wall or flat surface, in any of the family member's homes.
~ Elizabeth
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 5:04 am
by Insanitor
My god! I have that same typewriter. since I was 12. can't say it did the same for me as for the LC
Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 5:55 am
by Tchocolatl
I. maybe it is because you did not do to it as LC did : Putting it in the bath tub under hot water and pine oil during a winter night, and trowing it so hard it cracked, and finding somebody to repair it at the end, etc. One has creativity or one does not have.
Tom
'cause there is 2 men for the price of 1? This would be cheap. (I'm not)
Great pic anyway.
