Picking up a pencil, he moved it slowly back and forth, and succeeded in putting her into a trance. Leonard drew a chair alongside and, as the book instructed, told her in a slow gentle voice to relax her muscles and look into his eyes. At his direction, the young woman sat on the chesterfield sofa. As Sylvie Simmons explains in her biography on the singer I’m Your Man, the enthusiastic and earnest Cohen worked hard to master these powerful arts, and soon discovered he was a natural mesmerist.įinding instant success with domestic animals, he moved on to the domestic staff, recruiting as his first human subject the family maid. Here’s Cohen, growing tall and lanky, losing the puppy fat, smiling, precocious, inquisitive, intense, with a zest for life.Ĭohen has bought and studied 25 Lessons in Hypnotism How to Become an Expert Operator, a book that promises much-mind reading, animal magnetism and clairvoyant hypnosis-which the youngster hopes will deliver. Our scene opens on the teenage Leonard Cohen attempting to hypnotize the family maid.
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