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 servantsavant rated 11 months ago - "There is genius in their hatred." What a great line. Great bit to quote out of context. Makes a nice inversion in our current context too. "There is hatred in their genius."
I always wonder if the old Buk would choose to drink himself to death if he had found the peace...
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- julieann081 rated 4 months ago
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Bukowski - "The Genius of the Crowd"
- poetman rated 12 months ago
- never liked Bukowski much - but I love this - go figure...
- allen-taylor rated 9 months ago
- Cool video of Charles Bukowski.
- magicdot rated 21 months ago
- ..and 2 stumbles later i come across Bukowski.. ..i think google is crawling my brain.. yikes!
- servantsavant rated 11 months ago
- "There is genius in their hatred." What a great line. Great bit to quote out of context. Makes a nice inversion in our current context too. "There is hatred in their genius."
I always wonder if the old Buk would choose to drink himself to death if he had found the peace and quite of insurance underwriting like Wallace Stevens. I think the Buk was in love with Skid Row. To love Skid Row you have to explain why people find themselves there, especially yourself.
See also box office total for Factotum with Matt Dillon.
How is your heart?
during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
whores
I always had this certain
contentment-
I wouldn't call it
happiness-
it was more of an inner
balance
that settled for
whatever was occuring
and it helped in the
factories
and when relationships
went wrong
with the
girls.
it helped
through the
wars and the
hangovers
the backalley fights
the
hospitals.
to awaken in a cheap room
in a strange city and
pull up the shade-
this was the craziest kind of
contentment
and to walk across the floor
to an old dresser with a
cracked mirror-
see myself, ugly,
grinning at it all.
what matters most is
how well you
walk through the
fire.
- macon rated 22 months ago
- Bukowski: a warning for the makers of art through the medium of poetic paradox.
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