Most people who drink excessively or to alcoholi degrees end up at rock bottom, having ruined their relationships, lost a legacy of jobs, and have some many emotional problems as to be swamped by them.
Most end up in A.A. on the 12step programme or in some kind of councelling or dead or mad. Why didn't this happen to Bukowski? How come, like many poets, he didn't die?
I mean, I remember on born into this, one woman said she spent a wonderful affectionate night with bukowski but yet in the book, women, he made it out that the night was horrid and vile and aggressive. So this might be an example of distorting some relationship for the benefit of writing but also perhaps reveals an underlying ability for alcoholics to change the truth to suit themselves.
I'm curious, how did he survive? Do you think because Bukowski had so few 'long lasting' relationships that he didn't ruin them because the were fleating and passing? Or that he simply didn't give a fuck if he ruined relationships because he was a lone soldier and his parents had pretty much disowned from young anyway, so this prepaired him for all rejection?
It remains a wonder but what saved him. Why did he slip on the floor and crack his head? How did he survive all those decades of abuse and still remain intact? I'm sure there may be hundreds of examples of alcoholics surviving. By the end, buk didn't drink or smoke, where di he find the strength for that, through Linda?
I ask these questions out of interest, but also because I recieved an email from a girl I know and she is slandering me saying I'm an alcoholic in denial; and I think, even if I am, she's still as futile as me, for saying that which is obvious as though it was a revelation.
I guess luck had something to do with it. Also his metabolism could perhaps cope with such a lifestyle, the body adapts, some die beause it can;t, some continue on because it can.
It just seems, for all Bukowskis mythologising of alcoholism, it never seemd to penultimately RUIN him. i.e. he woke up in rehab one day, in tears, wishing he could change his life and make it all better? Really interested in this topic, hope you can contribute some thought and understanding.
Cheers.
McGuire.
Most end up in A.A. on the 12step programme or in some kind of councelling or dead or mad. Why didn't this happen to Bukowski? How come, like many poets, he didn't die?
I mean, I remember on born into this, one woman said she spent a wonderful affectionate night with bukowski but yet in the book, women, he made it out that the night was horrid and vile and aggressive. So this might be an example of distorting some relationship for the benefit of writing but also perhaps reveals an underlying ability for alcoholics to change the truth to suit themselves.
I'm curious, how did he survive? Do you think because Bukowski had so few 'long lasting' relationships that he didn't ruin them because the were fleating and passing? Or that he simply didn't give a fuck if he ruined relationships because he was a lone soldier and his parents had pretty much disowned from young anyway, so this prepaired him for all rejection?
It remains a wonder but what saved him. Why did he slip on the floor and crack his head? How did he survive all those decades of abuse and still remain intact? I'm sure there may be hundreds of examples of alcoholics surviving. By the end, buk didn't drink or smoke, where di he find the strength for that, through Linda?
I ask these questions out of interest, but also because I recieved an email from a girl I know and she is slandering me saying I'm an alcoholic in denial; and I think, even if I am, she's still as futile as me, for saying that which is obvious as though it was a revelation.
I guess luck had something to do with it. Also his metabolism could perhaps cope with such a lifestyle, the body adapts, some die beause it can;t, some continue on because it can.
It just seems, for all Bukowskis mythologising of alcoholism, it never seemd to penultimately RUIN him. i.e. he woke up in rehab one day, in tears, wishing he could change his life and make it all better? Really interested in this topic, hope you can contribute some thought and understanding.
Cheers.
McGuire.