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Thanks, I got a request to identity this from a fact-checking organization, "AFP Factual, the fact-checking service of news agency France-Presse (AFP)," so will let them know.

Does anyone know if this quote is by Bukowski? I don't recall it, seems a bit suspicious though not sure...."Society is degrading. People hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. Painting a graffiti is a crime, while killing a bull is an artform. The way of dressing or...

If you try to understand what poems mean, you'll never understand them.

Many thanks!

I don't want to go all philosophical here, but this is a joke but it also is centrally connected to one of the main themes of Factotum: Time. And the way clock-time dominates the lives of workers in the modern world and the absurdity of living by clock-time rather than by inner time, or...

Was "My Yellow Dog and I" posted? Or can you add it?

If you scroll down on the page of the link I gave, there is a video of the ad. And Philly Dave has the ad on the posting before mine.

Looks like there are comments on Jill Biden and Bukowski on "Bukowski Quotes": https://bukowskiquotes.com/2020/10/joe-biden-ad-quotes-charles-bukowski-without-naming-him/

WOW! This is great! Thanks for posting, I had not heard about it.

I wonder if any of you guys and gals ever saw the TV series "The Prisoner' with Patrick McGoohan. Seems to me to fit Roni's description quite well for an existentialist film. Poor Pat is thrown into a bizarre, totally "made-up" "village" by remote authorities and tries unsucessfully to escape...

NYQ 28 Fall 1985 the numbers game.

NYQ 60 2002 "Seize the Moment"

Two from NYQ 35 Spring 1988. "Dirty Laundry" and "A Goodbye to Spandau" about Rudolf Hess...

Two more from NYQ 41 1990.

NYQ 41 1990