Trivia part III (2 Viewers)

[d gray]

truth/reality

 

[Stavrogin]

Drinking the fruit of the grapevine, to death, in a room where the window is covered by an oiled tablecloth to block the sunshine from coming in. ;)

Ha! Based on the hint this is clearly the best answer but sadly not the right one.

Suffering or drinking to block out the pain of suffering.

Soon to be Lolita's central theme if she keeps selling shit on ebay.

truth/reality

You can find reality in the answer though some would prefer not to.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

fear of death.

or is that just me?

 

[Stavrogin]

Are you trying to answer the question? Or are you opening up to us? This is a trivia thread, hooch, not some I'm vulnerable tear-stained emo thread.

 

[Black Swan]

How about "living on luck".

 

[Black Swan]

Himself.

 

[Bukfan]

No and no. Here's a hint: Sunlight will show you the way or you can hear it through the Grapevine.

Sunlight, as in "Sunlight here I am" ?

 

[Stavrogin]

Yes, Bukfan.

 

[Bukfan]

Thanks, Stavrogin! All we gotta do now, is to read the book. That should'nt take more than a few hours. :D

I think Buk mentioned something about describing the life of the blue collar workers. Is that it?

 

[Stavrogin]

No, that's not it. Listen to the Grapevine.

 

[Black Swan]

Life!

 

[hoochmonkey9]

last time I try to appear human.

you heartless bastards.

 

[Stavrogin]

You got it, Swan! "Interview: Charles Bukowski," Douglas Howard, Grapevine. Collected in Sunlight Here I Am.
GV: Do you have a central theme in your fiction?
B: Life, with a small "l."

Back to you, Swan.

Poor, hooch, here you go: https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?7326-Most-Hideous-Day-I-ve-Had

 

[Black Swan]

This is the question,
Someone once asked Bukowski, if he were to give a writing course, what would he have his students do?
What was his answer?

 

[d gray]

go on a fake "10 year drunk"? :D

 

[Black Swan]

nope!
I remember him saying that drinking yourself silly wouldn't make someone a good writer.
Although, a fake ten year drunk would not exclude the right answer.
Try again.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Don't try...don't try to be someone else.

 

[Black Swan]

well, he'd probably say that too, but I am looking for a specific answer.

 

[Mark73]

Was his answer:"Forget about your writing class, get on your writing ass." ?

 

[Bukfan]

Something about go play the horses?

 

[d gray]

drink and screw?

 

[Black Swan]

Something about go play the horses?

you are getting hot, Hans.
Can you get more specific? Or, all you get is a blue star.:cool:

Bukfan, I'd say you're up ! Here is what he said.

"I'd send them all to the racetrack and force them to bet $5 on each race."
He also thinks that the diffusion of talent usually occurs among young writers in their twenties who don't have enough experience, who don't have enough meat to pick off the bone.
I quote:" you can't write without living and writing all the time is not living."

 

[Bukfan]

Black Swan, I don't know where you found that $5 bet quote, but I remembered something similar from the short story, "Goodbye Watson" ("Erections"/"Tales Of Ordinary Madness"), in which he says, "If I ever taught a class in creative writing, one of my prerequisites would be that each student must attend a racetrack once a week and place at least a 2 dollar win wager on each race...".

Okay, next question:

Where was the poem, "The Crunch", first published?

 

[Black Swan]

I read it in All's Normal Here.
A Charles Bukowski Primer, Ruddy Duck Press 1985.
Editor,Loss Glazier.

 

[Bukfan]

I see! I have'nt got that one. Not yet, anyway...

 

[Black Swan]

Bukfan, you'd asked the ? three years ago.

The Crunch
Second Coming. Vol. 5 No. 1 - 1977

Is that it? :)

 

[Bukfan]

I asked the same question three years ago? Jezuz, my memory is failing me, but yours seems to be on top.
Yes, that's the answer! Your turn!

 

[Black Swan]

on a different thread! There were three versions of the poem and you were wondering which one was the original.

 

[Bukfan]

That's right! You have a good memory. Anyway, your turn!

 

[Black Swan]

In 1963, Bukowski wrote a rhyming poem, for Wormwood, ending with ect.
What is the title?

 

[marina del rey]

I believe it was actually titled "Rhyming poem".

 

[Black Swan]

yup! you're up!

 

[marina del rey]

Okay, sticking with the same theme: What was his last poem published in Wormwood that rhymed?

 

[Purple Stickpin]

No title to this one; it's in the final issue, The Marvin Malone Festschrift (145/146):

MALONE, MALONE
THE DIRTY OLD
CRONE, WE ALL
THROW HIM THE
POETRY
BONE.

 

[marina del rey]

10-4 good buddy, you're up.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

There may be more than one answer to this, so I'll be the impartial judge Hathorne. There is a specific answer to this one, however.

What did Buk cite as his main reason for hating travel?

 

[Ponder]

I guess nobody knows the answer to the question.
Next question?

 

[roni]

I thought his main reason for hating travel was everything about it.

 

[Black Swan]

Let's say it is because he couldn't drink as much as he wanted.

 

[Black Swan]

He hated to leave LA.

PS, you need to give us a clue.