Notes of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski

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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2013-07-08 17:27:51 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA1117517 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City San Francisco Donor I printed three of the poems in the anthology; the two I didn't publish have since been published elsewhere.) some men hope for revolution, but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.” I became another drunk, thinking of suicide, sitting in little rooms for days with all the shades down, wondering what was out there and what was wrong with it- not knowing whether to blame it on my father or myself or them." There is plenty of booze and debauchery in this collection. There were a few surprises here too, both good and bad. One good surprise was a short piece about Bukowski meeting Neal Cassady shortly before he died. It is well written, interesting and I think he does a nice summation of Cassady at the end of his life. He says that "Kerouac has written your other chapters". One disappointing surprise was Bukowski's opinion of Burroughs - "Burroughs is a very dull writer". He truly thinks Celine is the bee's knees. I have read some Celine and think he is a pretty good writer but terribly pessimistic and misanthropic - sounds right up Buk's lane huh?

Nope--this is quite simply too gross for me. I did not finish it. I am 100% sure I do not want to continue, despite that I have enjoyed other books by the author. Often short stories don't work for me, but this is not the problem here. The writing is quite simply too crude and vulgar. Nor do the topics attract me.Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969) is a collection of underground newspaper columns written by Charles Bukowski for the Open City newspaper that were collated and published by Essex House in 1969. His short articles were marked by his trademark crude humor, as well as his attempts to present a "truthful" or objective viewpoint of various events in his life and his own subjective responses to those events." Source: Wikipedia It's A Dirty World - https://bukowski.net/database/detail.php?w=5615&Title=notes-of-a-dirty-old-man Not Quite Bernadette - https://bukowski.net/database/detail.php?w=5656&Title=notes-of-a-dirty-old-man In conclusion, this book would be exceptionally good if it didn't contain those few really disturbing stories. I know some Buk fans will disagree but hell that's how I roll. Definitely worth the price of admission though. I quite liked your political statements, they showed that you after all used your intellect, what-ever-much was left of it in your intoxicated brain.

There is a sequence in "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" where a painting instructor gives a young Bukowski brushes and paints (he didn't bring his own), and instructs him to paint a vase, just like his classmates. While they take hours, he is finished in five minutes. His color is sparse and basic, and the vase resembles shit more than slightly in its coloring. But his classmates are amazed and refuse to believe Bukowski has never painted before. once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a room full of people who only helped when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those magic times. I knew it.” These disjointed stories gives us a glimpse into the brilliant and highly disturbed mind of a man who will drink anything, hump anything and say anything without the slightest tinge of embarassment, shame or remorse. It's actually pretty hard not to like the guy after reading a few of these semi-ranting short stories." ―Greg Davidson, curiculummag.com Throughout my years of indoctrination, I was warned away from Bukowski. It wasn’t healthy for young strong American feminist brain-dead consumers to be reading the works of uhm … that woman-hating guy. Oddly enough, academia and peer(pressure) groups didn’t find Burroughs to be a problem at that time. Why am I trying to reason out psychopaths’ agendas… Lccn 73084226 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL5435977M Openlibrary_edition

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Alcoholism is very prevalent in both of Bukowski's Dirty Old Man pieces. He displays many of the outcomes that most people with alcoholism show as well: self-control problems, difficulty in identifying feelings, apathy toward external reality, difficulty in emotional processing, and more depressed and/or anxious, and a face deformed by its abuses. [1] However, his alcoholism is not an issue that Bukowski wishes to change; it is simply a way of life for him. I hadn't read any Bukowski in over a year so I thought it was about time that I carried on with my challenge which is to read everything that he's ever released. urn:lcp:notesofdirtyoldm00buko:lcpdf:9411d777-b2d6-4048-8e0e-36a5a9f261c9 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier notesofdirtyoldm00buko Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9z05rm5f Invoice 11 Isbn 0872860744

Your diary reminds me a bit of Celine, and maybe that was your intention, you were a man who had read a great deal. More than a year ago John Bryan began his underground paper OPEN CITY in the front room of a small two story house that he rented. Then the paper moved to an apartment in front, then to a place in the business district of Melrose Ave. Yet a shadow hangs. A helluva big gloomy one. The circulation rises but the advertising is not coming in like it should. Across in the better part of town stands the L.A. Free Press which has become established. And runs the ads. Bryan created his own enemy by first working for the L.A. Free Press and bringing their circulation from 16,000 to more than three times that. It's like building up the National Army and then joining the Revolutionaries. Of course, the battle isn't simply OPEN CITY vs. FREE PRESS. If you've read OPEN CITY, you know that the battle is larger than that. OPEN CITY takes on the big boys, the biggest boys, and there are some big ones coming down the center of the street, NOW, and real ugly big shits they are, too. It's more fun and more dangerous working for OPEN CITY, perhaps the liveliness rag in the U.S. But fun and danger hardly put margarine on the toast or feed the cat. You give up toast and end up eating the cat..." we are hooked, slapped and chopped silly; so silly that some of us finally love tormentors because they are there to torment us along logical lines of torture. this seems so reasonable, since there isn’t anything else showing.”

Of the many columns and blurbs here, there is one about a party and the time Bukowski met Neal Cassady. He took a crazy car ride with Neal driving and John Bryan (who published Cassady’s letter to Kerouac in City Lights (and gave Bukowski the platform in his Open City paper to write the segments contained in Notes of a Dirty Old Man). I’m also told by the God-fearing that I have ‘sinned’ because I was born a human being and once upon a time human beings did something to one Jesus Christ. I neither killed Christ or Kennedy.” We are all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."