We know from video, that Bukowski usually didn't read from his books when he gave public readings. He read from sheets of paper.
Now the tantalizing question:
What were those papers?
I find it quite unlikely, it were the manuscripts or carbons. Also I don't think xerox-copies were so common in the early to late 70s. I find it equally unlikely, that he took the effort of re-typing them for a reading. Maybe he got lose sheets from print-run-overs of books?
We also know, that sometimes at a live-reading, he read other versions than we know from books/manuscripts. (e.g. 'The Crunch' or 'Style')
You sure get, where this question aims at:
is it possible, that there ARE different versions from Bukowski's own hand, that haven't been published before his dead?
And even if there wasn't, it's still interesting what sheets of paper he was reading from, right?
Does anybody know?
Maybe one of the cats here, who knew him back in the 70s or one of you detective-scholars?
Now the tantalizing question:
What were those papers?
I find it quite unlikely, it were the manuscripts or carbons. Also I don't think xerox-copies were so common in the early to late 70s. I find it equally unlikely, that he took the effort of re-typing them for a reading. Maybe he got lose sheets from print-run-overs of books?
We also know, that sometimes at a live-reading, he read other versions than we know from books/manuscripts. (e.g. 'The Crunch' or 'Style')
You sure get, where this question aims at:
is it possible, that there ARE different versions from Bukowski's own hand, that haven't been published before his dead?
And even if there wasn't, it's still interesting what sheets of paper he was reading from, right?
Does anybody know?
Maybe one of the cats here, who knew him back in the 70s or one of you detective-scholars?