In the days preceding the Yom Kippur War, Leonard Cohen was at war with his girlfriend, Suzanne Elrod. It was October 1973 on the cockerel-crowing Greek island of Hydra, and Suzanne and Leonard were quarrelling over their child, their greed, their unkindness, their bitter tongues and their ancestors, as he would later write in the unpublished prose work The Final Revision of My Life in Art. His shoulder ached. He grit his teeth too much. He was nervous.