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hank solo

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any chance the poem could be "this rejoinder" from The Last Night of the Earth Poems? And wasn't Harper a guy that Bukowski wrote to in 1956?
 
NO, babe! - This doesn't work !

You cannot give Trivia-quests without knowing the answer yourself !
And even IF you did - you can NEVER let go an answer that was set with a question-mark !
NOTHING is solved in this way!


I dunno the answer myself - so I'd claim:
Let's start a REAL competition to find out the answer!

(That's what trivias are for, right?)


and anyways:
Answerers are ALWAYS questioned to give sources to their answers! (or am I wrong?)

(at least b/c of reasons to teach others!)


How wrong can I be on this gist? - your turn!
 

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Since it's so silent in here, I'm so free to keep this nice thread going. Correct me if you don't like my initiative, ok?

Question: Who was Mr. Adams?
 
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deadhead

Fucking trivia. Fun but fluff. Good thread for those carefree times. I got a question: Why did Buk favor the Volks?
 

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Hint: Like Bukowski did, Mr. Adams also visited the same hotel on Vermont Avenue.

They knew each other.
 

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Since Bukfan desperately asked for a second hint.

Mr. Adams appeared in a buk poem. The poem is published in 3 different buk books. But I read about Mr. Adams first, in an interview Bukowski gave when he was in his late sixties.
 

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Correction: The poem is published in 2 buk books but first in Notes from underground.
 

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
Notes from underground? What's that? Dostoyevski?
 
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I now been looking through
- The Night They Took Whitey
- The Swan
- Insomnia
- 6 A.M.
- A Nice Place
but didn't find a Mr. Adams.
Are there any appearences in 'Notes from underground' I don't know of?
 

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
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Now, this is strange. You give the right answer, it's from The night they took Whitey and there is no Mr. Adams.

Read this part of the interview of 1989:

Ah! Just read it back, I thought, Mr. Adams automaticly appeared in the poem. But I guess Buk just mentioned him. Sorry, my mistake. By the way, never been able to read the poem, so far.

From the poem"the night they took whitey," was Whitey a friend of yours?[/B]"Whitey" was an off-and-on drinking partner in this hotel on Vermont Avenue. I went there now and then to see a girlfriend (Jane) and often stayed two or three days and nights. Everybody in the place drank. Mostly cheap wine. There was one gentleman "” a "Mr. Adams" "” a very tall chap who took a fall down the long stairway two or three nights a week, usually around 1:30 a.m., when he was making a last attempt at a run of the liquor store around the corner. He would go tumbling down this long, long, hard stairway "” you could hear the sound of him banging along "” and my girlfriend would say, "There goes Mr. Adams." All of us always waited to see if he would go through the glass doorway, which he sometimes did. I think he got the glass doorway about fifty percent of the time. The manager just had somebody come and replace the doorway the next day, and Mr. Adams went on with his life. He was never injured, not badly. That fall would have killed a sober man. But when you're drunk, you fall loose and soft like a cat, and there's no fear inside of you; you're either a bit bored or a bit laughing inside of yourself. Whitey just let it go one night, blood roaring from the mouth. I had done the same thing a few times, so I related. Blood is purple and a bit of stomach comes out and the blood stinks. I came out of it after a dozen pints of blood and a dozen pints of glucose. But we never saw Whitey again.
 
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mjp

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That is only part of that interview.

I recently scanned the entire thing, but I have to go through it and fix all the OCR fuck ups. So the entire Stonecloud interview will be available soon (also an old ONTHEBUS interview that I haven't seen elsewhere).
 

cirerita

Founding member
no "besides" here ;)

it was edited by a single person, and it was NOT John Martin. The only Martin's contribution was the dedication "For Jane", which Buk was uncomfortable with, or so I'm told.
 
I named JM, bc I think, he'd never let solely decide another person what to put in a BSP-book and am sure, he at least reserved 'the last word' on the choice of poems.

But, o.k., I'll say San Dorbin then.
If it wasn't him, I'm out.

(on the dedication: according to Sounes, Buk wanted to dedicate it to Norse first and split up with him about this issue. He also confirms your info that is was JMs idea to dedicate it to Jane. - p.99)
 

Petey

RIP
I would prefer if AC/DC had dedicated a song to Bukowski
but well "Dirty Day" was the song on the U2 album "Zooropa" in 1993.
 
You are Right with your answer - so You are to ask now!
... you're also right in suggesting AC/DC's KICKIN' ASS!
... you're right, if you do assume, that 'Dirty Day' is a weak song.
.. but I'd definitely FIGHT for U2 being a Great band with Great songs and Great lyrics! - wanna bet?

haha! - go on buddy! YOUR turn!
 

Petey

RIP
Hey i never mentioned that i don`like U2 they are really a great band.
By the way Bono also dedicated a concert at the Dodger Stadium to Linda and Charles Bukowski. Would be very interesting if anybody knows if a bootleg
from this gig is available.

The lyrics from former AC/DC singer Bon Scott (R.I.P.) were not so far away form the Bukowski writing he also was a womanizer and an alcoholic and put
this stuff in his songs.


My next question is:
Bukowskis friend and translater Carl Weissner was asked in an interview he
should describe Buk in one single word.
What did he answered?
 

Petey

RIP
LOL - but he should describe the character of Bukowski in one single word.
I read the interview in an american literature magazine called "Free Thought".
 
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