Beware of what comes out of Montreal, especially during winter.  
It is a force corrosive to all human institutions.  It will
bring everything down.  It will defeat itself.  It will establish
the wilderness in which the Brightness will manifest again.

- from 'Montreal', by Leonard Cohen.  

Stranger music: selected poems and songs.
Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1993.  Pg. 265.