Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking fo…

Leonard Cohen
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2011). Beautiful Losers, p.78, Vintage
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