1953 Unpublished letter to Judson Crews - Read this gem! (timeline stuff)
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He sounds like Jello Biafra on 'ludes...
Bill
Bill
chronic
old and in the way
Now you've done it... you made me feel old.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/faqs/quaaludes.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/faqs/quaaludes.html
Ha, Ha,. man, those were the days! wreck your friends car, then go back to his place and trade girlfriends for the night.....( I still think that them rorer's were an anti-radical govt conspiracy. I mean, a drug that just makes you fall down and feel horny!? and christ there were trainloads of 'em everywhere I went.) :cool:
chronic
old and in the way
They were marketed as sleeping pills. The problem was that, once they took effect, who would want to waste that feeling on sleep?
I first took them around '72-'73 in High School when they were still a new-ish drug. A friend was selling them at 3 for a dollar so, assuming that they would be similar to reds (same price, same strength, right?), I took 2 at lunchtime then went to my drafting class. When they came on I couldn't stay on the stool... just kind of kept melting off of it. Luckily I sat at the back of the room and when the teacher's back was turned managed to sneak out and walk home.
I always thought it was funny that, when you took ludes, you could be walking through a door and suddenly have the wall next to it jump out in front of you and bash you in the face. Damnedest thing, that.
I first took them around '72-'73 in High School when they were still a new-ish drug. A friend was selling them at 3 for a dollar so, assuming that they would be similar to reds (same price, same strength, right?), I took 2 at lunchtime then went to my drafting class. When they came on I couldn't stay on the stool... just kind of kept melting off of it. Luckily I sat at the back of the room and when the teacher's back was turned managed to sneak out and walk home.
I always thought it was funny that, when you took ludes, you could be walking through a door and suddenly have the wall next to it jump out in front of you and bash you in the face. Damnedest thing, that.
In the letter (to Crews) bukowski talks about a few poems...
What was the destiny of these ones?
Were the same poems published in 1993 or 1994 as Cicerita said on the beginnings?
Is really that we can only talk about 3 poems between 1944 to 1955?:
- Hello (1946 in Matrix)
- Voice in a new York subway (1947, in Matrix too)
-The look (1951, in Matrix too, and the unique recovery in "the house madrigals")
?
Thanks
H
What was the destiny of these ones?
Were the same poems published in 1993 or 1994 as Cicerita said on the beginnings?
Is really that we can only talk about 3 poems between 1944 to 1955?:
- Hello (1946 in Matrix)
- Voice in a new York subway (1947, in Matrix too)
-The look (1951, in Matrix too, and the unique recovery in "the house madrigals")
?
Thanks
H