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[Ponder]

No clue. It seems I'm not the only one.

It's been ages ago since I dropped a question. Can I arrange a reservation for the next question?

 

[hank solo]

Well I'm guessing, "At Terror Street and Agony Way" and John Thomas.

 

[roni]

wouldbe too easy.
from the first words, I'd guess it's from a rare collector's item.
so, let's wait till mjp, cirerita or bosspress come in ...

 

[bospress.net]

Hi,
I would say that it had to be to his woman at the time as he mentions "the knocking on our floor".

So, it would have to be Linda King or FrancEye.

I say that it is "Me and your Sometimes Love Poems" by Bukowski and Linda King.

Of course, there is a pretty good chance that I'm WAY off on this. It seems like it must be an early book, and I almost think that it must be earlier than Linda King....

Bill

 

[bospress.net]

My second guess is "Cold Dogs in the Courtyard" and it would be dedicated to FranceYe. Cold Dogs was the only book that Bukowski actually edited, so it is possible that he would have typed the ms and sent it in....

by the way... If I get this right, I'll pass the queston on to Ponder.

Bill

 

[ROC]

Cold dogs is correct, so it's over to Ponder.

 

[Ponder]

Thank you kind, ROC & Bill.

An easy one, but an important one!

The buknet calendar tells us the birthday of Marina Louise Bukowski (1964)
but it doesn't tell us the birthday of Linda Lee Bukowski!

Shame on you, MJP!

So, when is it?

p.s. Is it tell or tells...
(Hard to tell for a foreigner who didn't study English...)

 

[ROC]

Welcome!

and you got your tells 100% correct. :)

 

[Ponder]

My American girlfriend will be proud of me ;)

But give me the answer, please!

I read it in the novel Women in 1984.

 

[mjp]

I don't know Linda's birth date, but if someone does, I'll add it. I don't know if a quote from Women would be completely reliable. It's fiction, right? ;)

 

[Ponder]

I'm wondering how many times buknet members re read Women, that's almost worth a new topic.

Perhaps the person who lives in your hostel for a long time knows the real answer ;)

 

[Petey]

Let me quote from Sounes:
"Linda Lee was born in 1943 into a well-off Pennsylvania family".
But there is no exactly date mentioned.
Hey Ponder does it fits to the date in Women?
My turn?

 

[Ponder]

No, in Women, "Chinaski" mentions the exact month and day, but you read it between the lines...

 

[ROC]

Come on!
I translated from Japanese!
How hard can this be?
One of you... nail this dutch fuckers question! :D

P.S. I have no idea what the answer is... :o

 

[1fsh2fsh]

...11/11/43.....?

 

[Ponder]

Come on!
I translated from Japanese!
How hard can this be?
One of you... nail this dutch fuckers question! :D

You did? Japanese is not easy. Try to translate this:

Ik reed naar Sara's huis. Ik had ook verscheidene flessen wijn bij
me. Ik had er eerlijk gezegd eentje soldaat gemaakt terwijl ik me stond
te scheren. Ik schoor me zelden maar ik schoor me voor Sara's verjaar-
dag en voor Veteranen-avond. Ze was een goede vrouw. Ze had esprit
en haar celibaat was, vreemd genoeg, begrijpelijk. Ik bedoel, naar
haar zienswijze, behoorde het bewaard te worden voor een goede
man. Niet dat ik nou zo'n goede man was, maar haar allure zou goed
staan naast mijn allure, aan een cafétafeltje in Parijs als ik eindelijk
beroemd werd. Ze was innemend, kalm intellectueel, en bovendien
had ze dat merkwaardige rood in het goud van haar haar. Het was bij-
na alsof ik tientallen jaren naar die kleur gezocht had... mis-
schien wel langer.

...11/11/43.....?

That's what Mr. Chinaski says...

Veterans day.

Your turn, 1fsh2fsh!

 

[ROC]

I drove to Sara's house. I had some different bottles of wine with me. I had drunk one while shaving. I seldom shaved myself but I shaved for Sara's Birthday and for veterans evening. She was a good woman. She had spirit and her celibacy was, strangely enough, understandable.
I guess she intended to save herself for a good man. Not that I was a good man, but her class would stand well beside my class in a Parisian café when I was at last famous. She was endearing, calmly intellectual, and moreover she had that remarkable red in the gold of her hair. It was almost as that was the colour I had strived to find for dozens of years .. perhaps even longer.

How's that Ponder?

 

[Ponder]

It's only the proof you're not an illiterate person ;)

Wanna read several pages in Dutch? : http://cgi.ebay.com/Charles-Bukowsk...0QQihZ015QQcategoryZ29223QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Forget the price...

Enough...Back to a brilliant new question of 1fsh2fsh.

 

[1fsh2fsh]

Ok,
I say if the person who guesses correctly doesn't post a new question within 24 hours,
They forfeit their chance
And whoever spots the time lapse
Gets to post the next question...

So let the game continue!
Whoever sees this first->
Riddle us this, Riddle us that,
And

Give us a good puzzler...

thank god I found this old post!!!! whew.....

 

[Petey]

OK i put in the year of 1943 so i will go ahead with a tough one:
What was the original title of the docu "Born into this" ?

 

[1fsh2fsh]

thanks for taking over Petey.... I'm just no good with games....

 

[Ponder]

OK i put in the year of 1943 so i will go ahead with a tough one:
What was the original title of the docu "Born into this" ?

Tough one for sure! Is it time for a hint?

 

[Petey]

one hint my friends:
the title refers to one of Bukowski's posthumous books of poetry from 1999.

 

[taxidriver]

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire?

 

[Bukfan]

the title refers to one of Bukowski's posthumous books of poetry from 1999.

One of them? wasn't there only one published in '99?

 

[Petey]

Yes Bukfan you are right there was only one published in 1999 maybe my
sentence structure was not clear enough.

So Taxidriver is very close to the answer but i wanna the exactly title
gentlemen!

 

[bospress.net]

walk through the fire...

Just a guess really.

Bill

 

[Petey]

YEP !
Walk Through the Fire: The Life of Charles Bukowski.
I read it in an interview with the director J.D.
So it's your turn Bill !

 

[bospress.net]

Hi,
I'll pass my question to taxidriver. He was so close and I would love to see him stump us. So, taxidriver, your turn to ask a question!

Bill

 

[taxidriver]

This is a mutli-part question because I think the answer will be a bit easier to find and you'll probably find all the answers at the same time.
There is a certain Bukowski poem in which five things are described as being as perfect as someone's hatred. The poem has been published four times and was originally printed in a book that shared the same title as the poem. What is the name of the poem and what are the five things that are stated as being perfect?

 

[hank solo]

The poem is of course 'The Genius of the Crowd', and the five things are

• A Shining Diamond
• A Knife
• A Mountain
• A TIGER
• Hemlock

Ok, who interviewed Bukowski for the audio cassette magazine, 'A Moveable Feast #3'?

 

[Ponder]

Tom Vitale

 

[roni]

I read it in an interview with the director J.D.

hey, Petey:
where's that interview from? can you do a scan of it?

 

[hank solo]

On you go Ponder.

 

[Ponder]

In wich magazine appeared the poem "The flashin of the odds" for the first time?

Later collected in The last night of the earth poems.

 

[cirerita]

It appeared in the comic book Real Stuff #2, but it might have appeared in other mags as well.

 

[Ponder]

Darn! I thought this was a tough one :)

Your turn!

 

[cirerita]

Issue and name of this mag:

 

[Petey]

hey, Petey:
where's that interview from? can you do a scan of it?

hey, Roni:
my source was again "Free Thought" magazine Vol.II , Issue I , Summer 2000
see page 10.
As you know it was a special gift from the German Bukowski society so you
must own it too.

 

[roni]

thanks baby! haven't read this interview so far. *me stupid*