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Hand hoe-ing weeds growing in an onion crop in lines of 150 yards is starting to bother me a little.

Bill, thanks for those cards you sent, got them yesterday. I particularly like the Greetings from New Hampshire one. Tim

Bukowski once described himself as an ugly old troll. I have a signed book right here to that effect as it happens.

so long as almost nobody gets it, that's good enough for me.

Hindinwood, Well, alright, it is part of the city of LA. And I would be the first one to erect a monument to Hank somewhere there. But what about Raymond Chandler ? Does he not get a mention ? The Irish writers residences were knocked down you know. I tried to find Sean O'Caseys and it was...

Seriously now. He's 20 years old & probably never read a book in his life. He'll have a lot of time on his hands & there's only so many motor-cycle magazines that his father can send him. I really want to mail him something to kill the time. I suppose I'm asking a lot from a bunch of...

John Howard is a big fan of "Ask The Dust" apparently. It could be his downfall.

still making a clown of yourself I see. buffoonering your way around your own personal domain & removing anything that you don't think fit to print. I tried to warn them, but it was no go.

It's hugely embarrassing to think that the readers of somebody's prose would imagine that the place where they wrote it was in some way sacred. Eccles Street in Dublin is long gone...

"Ask The Dust" is a book that nobody would have read if it weren't for Hank. Dan Fante is alive & well and writing the kind of thing that Dan Fante writes.

John Fante would be the only writer straight from Bukowski. And through John Fante his son Dan.

baisez-vous, monsieur o'shea.

You never see Bruce Wayne and Batman in the same place at the same time. Remarkable, but true :) MJP, I accept your apology, temporary though it might be. You have been most gracious. and quite amusing too, which wasn't a quality that I thought I would ever grant you. let me know...

I'll try to walk across the Habur bridge :)

Gerard, You are not who you think you are. But it was a good try nonetheless.

Gerard, But does Bukowski make you want to WRITE ? That was the question on the thread title. I'm giving MJP some time to think of something, but perhaps Bukowski has inspired him NOT to write. It takes all sorts.

MJP, It's most strange to finish a long and complicated letter to my local Member of Parliament about Turkey, Kurdistan and the PKK and also the misuse of tax-payers money to prop up an ailing bank over here (Northern Rock) and then pop over to that renowned place of intellectual superiority...

Ah yes, the two burdens of the cycling freak - leg shaving and the constant threat of piles. At least the second one is Bukowski related, however tenuously. And so MJP, if you "troll" back through a couple of inane chats between myself and ROC, you will come to the main one. Meanwhile...

ROC, That has completely confused me. When I say that it would be hypocritical to ban me for being a "dick-head" I mean that if that was the only criteria then there would be bans dished out almost daily. Was that not clear ? Isn't it Friday night in Melbourne now or something. Surely you...

ROC, It would be quite hypocritical to ban me for being a "dick-head" though wouldn't it ? But as I have requested the ban (or a very unlikely apology) anyway it's hardly relevant.

to clarify a few things before mjp gives me the red card. The "5 favourite authors" post he pulled & then referred to rather snottily: Well, the last book I read was "The Human Factor" by Graham Greene & the one I'm currently reading is "Inside the Third Reich" by Albert Speer. So I...

a ban please, to prove my point.

in fact, sod it. I'm not too keen on all of this "troll" stuff. MJP, you can either apologise for it or I request that you remove me from the forum. I imagine that you have the power to do that.

so on a Bukowski forum it's "out of bounds" to call poetry worthless ? or to say that the idea of "inspiration" or "influence" has created the situation in American writing that I mentioned in the other thread & which you ignored completely ? even if I think it's true ? I am quite amazed.

Ham On Rye Chapter 52 "It was intellectually popular and proper to be for going to war with Germany, to stop the spread of fascism. As for me, I had no desire to go to war to protect the life I had or what future I might have. I had no Freedom. I had nothing. With Hitler around, maybe I'd...