I read somewhere - a long time ago - that she is not alive any more.
...Very good line........Now I've got to the end, I'm as disappointed as the man who followed the nice wiggle for miles only to finally find the face doesn't match the cheeks.
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There's a lesson there somewhere. I'm not sure what it is though.
I didn't say the Bukowski/Georgia picture is not iconic, it is. It just isn't significant. It's not important in Bukowski's history or to his story. At all.
Yes, well, your father thought so anyway. Look, he wrote this blurb for one of my books 14 or 15 years ago:Wow, MJP you're something else man. Un F'n believable!
No problem at all. It's entertainment. The Buk-fridge-picture is entertainment as well.Sorry (kind of) to dredge up this thread again
saturday means pig out party and rage! no time to think time to par-tay!
Blasphemy!so theres a lot of misinformation on the net.
If Buk-related I'd certainly check out the movie and book. Don't worship the picture but am fond of it (my favorite being Buk pictured sitting at the typewriter looking at issues of The Outsider). Obviously the pic is a case of beauty in the eye of the beholder, it strikes me as a snapshot straight out of one his stories. Pick a favored author, poet, painter or such and google image that person and generally you get the 'obligatory intellectual pose' - tiresome. Bukowski didn't mind being pictured in a non-flattering manner - this prior to the paparazzi sticking its eye up the ass 24-7. Imagine one of Academia's chosen being pictured so - Buk is embracing his readership in the photo. He wrote for Georgia, not the Harvard Review.Someone should make a movie about that fucking picture.
Well, he didn't write for either, and I'm pretty sure that he would have rather eaten broken glass than embrace his readership, but that's the problem with the picture isn't it. It's just more myth building. He made himself available to anyone who walked in off the street for many reasons, and he was not above using people as props to elicit reactions from "regular" folks. You can see many examples of that in his own writing and in the stories in the biographies.Buk is embracing his readership in the photo. He wrote for Georgia, not the Harvard Review.
There's a bit in the Sounes bio where Carl Weissner gives his take on why Buk is so popular in Germany - lacking political-correctness, genuine, blue-collar, without affectation, so on (from a cultural standpoint - a breath of fresh air). And Buk being a damn good writer didn't hurt. These reasons translate across borders. Most readers of Buk don't give a farthing for the myth aspect. They just want the genuine, lack of pretense reading. They see that, also, with the Georgia photo - he is, in a sense, embracing his readership. Take it or leave it.:)Well, he didn't write for either, and I'm pretty sure that he would have rather eaten broken glass than embrace his readership, but that's the problem with the picture isn't it. It's just more myth building.
Most readers of Buk don't give a farthing for the myth aspect.
what are those ''' for?
Ho ho ho, ha ha ha. Yes, lets bring back all those poor, misunderstood devil's advocates who were wrongly turned away. Whatever happened to FREE SPEECH, anyway? What is this, Nazi Germany???What's the devil's advocate font? This? ^ ^ or this? on hiatus.