Why is "The King Of San Pedro" the size of the palm of my hand? Just wondering.
A copy of this letter on yellow paper sold on eBay for the ridiculously high price of $50 a while back. That's my 2 cents...
Either he didn't remember me as the guy who wrote the infamous "Spit" book, or he didn't give a damn about that. Anyway, he wished us well.
Barker seems to have me down pretty good. It's as if he had followed me
around. If I once did, indeed, spit on his face, it really wasn't his, it
was Humanities [sic]. I was being driven mad by a mad wench at that time. I
got rid of her. But she was replaced by a madder wench and after
that by a madder one yet... Either I draw insane females or else they are
all insane. I'll never know.
Bukowski read the text in proof and made a few small changes. I've always been proud of that fact, although few know it (well, you do now) That's my 2 cents...
He did remember you. He says so in the letter. But it wasn't your face he spitted on, it was the face of humanity, he says. - What a relief! :D