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• n  a room with pool tables where pool is played

• The poolroom was Eddie's world in whatever town he happened to be, and such moments of truth as he experienced boiled up behind the eight ball.
• Sullen and sassy through breakfast, he begs the last quarter in the house, joins his poolroom pals to plan a delicatessen stickup.
• Under this system, students are simply dismissed early one day a week, with no school checkup on whether they improve the shining hour in the local church, movie house or poolroom.

Quotes

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• Leonard Cohen in Montreal Gazette
  Asked point blank by Paul Williams in 1975 what he was trying to achieve in song, Cohen replied: "To create a vapour and a mist, to make oneself attractive, to master it, to keep busy and avoid the poolroom and try to get good at what you're doing....