"Molecules Dancing in the Mountains"

"On the day he arrived in London, Cohen bought a typewriter, a green Olivetti 22 for ₤40, which would remain with him for years. He also acquired his "famous blue raincoat," a Burberry with epaulets. That, too, remained with him until it was stolen from a New York loft in 1968. In London, these objects acted as amulets, arming him to combat the world."

-From Ira B. Nadel's Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen