The eternal question: who in the hell is Pascal? (1 Viewer)

[the only good poet]

Bukowski mentions a Pascal in one of his writers list type poems, the poem What They Want. (Love is a dog from hell, Essential Bukowski). Who is this Pascal, any idea? There was a writer Blaise Pascal, but he didn't slit his own wrists, as far as i'm aware.

Now I'm off to eat some Chinese.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

When shiting on someone, Bukowski usually came up with a name that rymed with the person he was referencing.

 

[the only good poet]

No, it wasn't Dizzy Rascal, as far as I'm aware.

 

[Black Swan]

When shiting on someone, Bukowski usually came up with a name that rymed with the person he was referencing.

These names that Buk used are somewhere around here in a thread.