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    "Katharina" Bukowski obituary

    weLL now you can sEE the dangers of codifying and universalizing and standardizing and cataloging and computerizing........bukowski, or any ARTist for that matter, like a CIGAR, you really canNOT fully experience it, until you SMOKE IT, and then all it is is ASH and gone forever AND maybe doin...
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    "Katharina" Bukowski obituary

    . the point i got was he didn't want to be burdened with them (the belonging) - just like that house was not originally burdened with a garage (it along with central A/C was added on later as the garage is "detached" from the house) so was the fathers belongings and so were proceeds from a...
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    "Katharina" Bukowski obituary

    it is very possible the house has been altered, yes, that could be established by a search through building permits issued since then as i am highly doubtful the original house had a single door two car garage
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    "Katharina" Bukowski obituary

    buk says his father saw him fighting the admiral from "up on the porch" PLUS were two car garage doors that wide in those days ? i'm not trying to be argumentative just thats not a typical 56 year old house in the picture IMHO who had two cars back then anyway?
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    "Katharina" Bukowski obituary

    where's the porch?
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    Racist part in Post office

    . the most public use of the MONKEY description was by HOWARD COSELL on live TV during a Monday Night Football game - you can read that book and discover the details anyONE, the offendER or offendEE, can pick what IS and ISN'T racist to THEM SUBliminally, it has been indicated, we are ALL...
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    back again, i think

    Central School District my english teacher who served time was frank tassone the same time as buk was gaining in FAME mr tassone was gaining in INFAMY which i thought ironic as i was told by MOST literary teachers to DROP buk and PICK UP something else
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    Feminist criticism - real, actual, recorded in black & white?

    it was something about "why men die younger than women" or similar and addressed the notion that feminism had its limits i'll see if i can find the magazine in my random and haphazard collection
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    So, what else appeals to Bukowski fans?

    Waking From Drunkenness on a Spring Day 春日醉起言志 處世若大夢, Life in the World is but a big dream; 胡爲勞其生. I will not spoil it by any labour or care. 所以終日醉, So saying, I was drunk all the day, 頹然臥前楹. Lying helpless at the porch in front of my door...
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    A poem i don't understand

    don't ask, i often HIT on many, yet i simply PASS on others, but i never ask someone ELSE what i should be thinking AND i happen to have been reading that book last night, AND i do remember it, but i cannot tell YOU what it means (to you) TO ME it simply meant all that pretty boy had coming...
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    back again, i think

    i may actually have been throw off of here some time ago, i really don't remember anyHOW started reading CB in 1972 and through the years collected and re-collected much of his stuff, reading it again and again, over the years, occassionally adding the posthumous publications since 1994 real...
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    Feminist criticism - real, actual, recorded in black & white?

    betty friedan did an article published in playboy some years back which i recall as "constructive" criticism, however they both may have had the same publisher for a time back in the day, so it might have been cross-promotional to mention each other, but i don't really know frankD
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