mjp
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Nice little excerpt from an eBay auction:
Which is cute, coming from an idiot. Since only an idiot would dismiss the wholesale rape of Bukowski's posthumous work as no more than something "editors do." John Martin wasn't an editor, he was an extremely lucky paperclip salesman. And later, a cowardly butcher.
It's incredible to me that someone who has had as much of Bukowski's work pass through his hands as Scott Harrison has can be so ignorant and clueless. Being a Martin apologist is one thing, they are everywhere, but being willfully blind and stupid is something else, and there is no excuse for it.
When all is said and done we'll see who was "sitting back" and who was actively working to make sure that history doesn't see Bukowski as nothing more than an average writer who lost all his skill in his later years, due to the meddling of a single stinking turd fly up in Santa Barbara. In the meantime, Harrison and his spineless ilk can line up little dutiful little soldiers and lick my balls.
Thank you, goodnight!
It's true that over the years John trimmed passages, took out some words, changed a few things around as editors do and there are some with time on their hands to sit back and criticize him...
Which is cute, coming from an idiot. Since only an idiot would dismiss the wholesale rape of Bukowski's posthumous work as no more than something "editors do." John Martin wasn't an editor, he was an extremely lucky paperclip salesman. And later, a cowardly butcher.
It's incredible to me that someone who has had as much of Bukowski's work pass through his hands as Scott Harrison has can be so ignorant and clueless. Being a Martin apologist is one thing, they are everywhere, but being willfully blind and stupid is something else, and there is no excuse for it.
When all is said and done we'll see who was "sitting back" and who was actively working to make sure that history doesn't see Bukowski as nothing more than an average writer who lost all his skill in his later years, due to the meddling of a single stinking turd fly up in Santa Barbara. In the meantime, Harrison and his spineless ilk can line up little dutiful little soldiers and lick my balls.
Thank you, goodnight!