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    Bukowski and Classical Music - anyone else at a loss...

    Wonderful replies and many thanks for clarifying some key points regarding more "Bukowski lore". It is quite logical that spending so much time wordsmithing, he would prefer music without words. It's just reading his work while listening to classical music is a rather surreal experience...
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    Bukowski and Classical Music - anyone else at a loss...

    Good point - but he would have been a teenager in late 30's, early 40's and radio ruled the world. Tons of crooners, then folk (which I believe he probably despised), rock and roll, and on and on. It's just interesting to try to rationalize such beauty against such gruff realism. But possibly he...
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    Bukowski and Classical Music - anyone else at a loss...

    Bukowski - he drank, he wrote, he drank, he worked at a job he detested but paid the bills and let him, what, drink and write, not necessarily in that order. He was ruggedly ugly with the personality of a bull dog and the genius the likes of which we see one in a generation. Oh, and he bet on...
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    Amazing to find this site!

    Late bloomer to Bukowski, but his work hit me like a brick upside the head, and I can't get the words out of my mind. The sheer proclivity, the well reasoned, yet still stream of consciousness, poem after poem, day after day, year after year. Thrilled to find a place where his work is given it's...
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