beware the average man (1 Viewer)
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Rick,
"Genius of the Crowd" is the name of the poem. If you are not looking to spend $3000 of the chapbook, you can get it in Roominghouse Madrigals or Run With The Hunted.
Best,
Bill
"Genius of the Crowd" is the name of the poem. If you are not looking to spend $3000 of the chapbook, you can get it in Roominghouse Madrigals or Run With The Hunted.
Best,
Bill
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The Genius Of The Crowd
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
HenryChinaski
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great poem
At the risk of sounding like a preacher or a knower (I?m not afraid of what I don?t know?disturbed, not afraid) or someone always reading books (I probably watch more television than read) and I don?t want to seem like I?m quick to censure (at least I?m not preaching peace or god, thank the gods) and I?m not seeking praise (although donations are graciously accepted), but I felt compelled (by love, not hate, ha) to point out that there are a few typos in the poem rendering.
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love
those who preach love do not have love
{The other reading makes Buk look a little flat-footed; not that he wouldn?t do something like that on purpose, for effect.}
beware those who are quick to censor
beware those who are quick to censure:
{understandable}
I know this was downloaded from the web and from a site I, for one, would think was trustworthy; just as I?m sure you did, Bill, so I was surprised by them, the site, getting it wrong. (I fully assume you just grabbed it on the fly, figuring they had it right.)
Then, as I researched this problem further, I found at least THIRTY sites that downloaded from the same folks (and quit looking after that; as I had 21,600 hits for the title) and were proliferating the errors contained therein (not to mention the wipe-out of the formatting that Buk laid out.) So, I thought I would go and send messages to everyone who had it wrong, and then realized I?d better get some work done today, so I?m just telling you here, and leaving the rest to the Internet Police.
SD
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love
those who preach love do not have love
{The other reading makes Buk look a little flat-footed; not that he wouldn?t do something like that on purpose, for effect.}
beware those who are quick to censor
beware those who are quick to censure:
{understandable}
I know this was downloaded from the web and from a site I, for one, would think was trustworthy; just as I?m sure you did, Bill, so I was surprised by them, the site, getting it wrong. (I fully assume you just grabbed it on the fly, figuring they had it right.)
Then, as I researched this problem further, I found at least THIRTY sites that downloaded from the same folks (and quit looking after that; as I had 21,600 hits for the title) and were proliferating the errors contained therein (not to mention the wipe-out of the formatting that Buk laid out.) So, I thought I would go and send messages to everyone who had it wrong, and then realized I?d better get some work done today, so I?m just telling you here, and leaving the rest to the Internet Police.
SD
HenryChinaski
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lol OCD?
mjp
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Multiply that by a million or so and you get some idea of the song lyric sites out there. They all feed from the same polluted pool and everything on the internet is wrong. ;)
Well, almost everything, it seems at times. It is frightening that people consider extremely flawed sources such as wikipedia to be authoritative.
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Hi,
Yep, I quickly lifted it off of the plagarist website. Sorry for the confusion.
Best,
Bill
Yep, I quickly lifted it off of the plagarist website. Sorry for the confusion.
Best,
Bill
chronic
old and in the way
Here's a pretty funny spoof on just that topic from the folks at "The Onion":
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902
In listening to Bukowski read "Genius of the Crowd" two different times in two different settings, he constantly trips over the word 'absurdity'...it just seems strange...and it's really quite funny when he begins to try and say it correctly and screws it up even worse :) Give me another hit of that beer...
Wow!
Have none of you heard the spoken word album "Uncensored"?
The album contains readings and interview/chats in between. Absolutely amazing to listen to; This is the old calm Bukowski. Being friendly, bantering and being sober. But the point is that he reads "Genius of the Crowd" and he is actually corrected on the pronounciaton of that word, absurdity. It is really sweat cause he wasn't aware of it, and both the recording manager/interviewer and Linda Lee Bukowski (nee Beighle) try to coax Buk into getting it right. He fumbles a bit, but eventually manages to pronounce it.
He did indeed get softer and softer. From a chauvinist with grandiose designs (or at least the image of it) to a sweet old man.
Hope that cleared that up. I had to registrer just to tell y'all this. And since you haven't, you really should purchase/borrow "Uncensored"
The album contains readings and interview/chats in between. Absolutely amazing to listen to; This is the old calm Bukowski. Being friendly, bantering and being sober. But the point is that he reads "Genius of the Crowd" and he is actually corrected on the pronounciaton of that word, absurdity. It is really sweat cause he wasn't aware of it, and both the recording manager/interviewer and Linda Lee Bukowski (nee Beighle) try to coax Buk into getting it right. He fumbles a bit, but eventually manages to pronounce it.
He did indeed get softer and softer. From a chauvinist with grandiose designs (or at least the image of it) to a sweet old man.
Hope that cleared that up. I had to registrer just to tell y'all this. And since you haven't, you really should purchase/borrow "Uncensored"
Thank God you showed up!
oh dear, my first post and I get an ear full :( this reminds me why I tend to stay away from these forums. and here I thought a Bukowski dedicated message board would be different and message-board-sexually-frustrated-nerd-free, my bad.
the point wasn't to plug the album, but to answer the question posed, even if the thread was old.
well, that was my first and last post then.
the point wasn't to plug the album, but to answer the question posed, even if the thread was old.
well, that was my first and last post then.
mjp
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Three months ago, you mean.
And to "follow" Oneiros. Hmm. Nothing odd about that.
Promises, promises.
