{"id":905,"date":"2008-05-14T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/05\/14\/spring-revelations\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:10:09","slug":"spring-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/14\/spring-revelations\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of my favourite passages from Leonard Cohen comes from his 1966 novel Beautiful Losers<\/i>. “In Montreal spring is like an autopsy,” he wrote. “Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, \u2018The winter has not killed us again!'”<\/p>\n

Montreal’s short spring is always a revelation<\/a>. It begins with the first mild days in March and April, when the streets suddenly fill with people who, once again, are walking for pleasure. Without snow and biting wind, the city no longer seems so hostile. People open their windows and everything seems louder, more immediate, more alive. Then, in May, the pleasures of sitting on soft grass, walking down a tree-shaded street and basking on a sunny balcony are quickly remembered. <\/p>\n

Sometimes, you don’t realize how much you have missed something until it returns in the spring. Just now, sitting in my kitchen, I noticed that, for the first time this year, I can hear the wind rustling through the leaves of the trees behind my apartment. It’s soothing, like sitting next to a fountain or the sea. I’m reminded of all the times I have sat outside in the summer, at night, listening to the trees.<\/p>\n

How does the arrival of the warm season change the way you experience the city? What are the spring and summer experiences that you realize you’ve missed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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