Famous Blue Raincoat ~ by Leonard Cohen

Ariadne took this song to class and asked us to comment on the story, who the speaker was, and the addressee and so on..

the magic of reality

for a story does not need to be a copy from reality or something, but it must necessarily cause readers to buy its idea. whatever we write must invite and make room for the reader's atention and curiosity. that's where originality comes. what we have to say must have anything new in the sense that this person intimately believes that there's this thing to the story s/he still needs to know. that is also where reality comes into the scene. reality here means the story is true to itself. it makes sense in terms of all its "parts" put together. I mean, if you take a story as being a puzzle, the reader must see it as a whole, as a unity, like: it is a story and it's worth reading. at the moment we concieve our writing ready to be read by someone else, it must exist by itself in the paper, dependence on you, writer, is overcome, the text belongs to the eyes which will "decode" it afterwards, and for that to happen properly, you should have done a good work. so, what you guys think about that?