” The sisters perform astonishing feats. . . . Everywhere, the great white tulips of their bonnets, which manage to flower where everything is dark with despair, where everything else is bleak and bare and inimical.” Thomas Bernhard, Frost 175
Cohen has a song about them too—The Sisters of Charity. He must have seen them in his childhood in Montreal. Unforgettable white bonnets, like sailboats, huge on their heads. Are they from Normandy?
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