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Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
We're not talking about the first edition from Essex House! We're talking about how much City Lights payed Buk in advance for a new edition of Notes!
I believe this new edition from City Lights was published in 1973.
(maybe I should call it the second edition, since Essex House published the first edition in '69)
 
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Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
It was much more than $2000. Too bad you don't have any bio's. If nobody answers the question within a couple of days I'll post it along with my source, and post another question instead.
 
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Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

OK, after writing Hollywood, Buk became very ill and was diagnosed with TB. He was put on a long course of antibiotics which prevented him from drinking. On what date was he able to resume drinking after this treatment?
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

Close, but no (I have two sources now; one of which is the book you cited). I think in that letter that Buk is writing about being normal again when he does smoke and drink again, not that he has yet. But keep reading...
 
james

james

ahhh...
pronounced cured of tb on nov. 13th, 1989. letter dated jan. 28, 1990-"back on wine, beer, cigars..."

reach for the sun, page 132
 
james

james

i was almost right. ps was looking for 11-14-89, the day after his antibiotics ran out and he was allowed to drink again. i was looking for the first letter where he MENTIONED drinking again. anyway, here's another one:

when was the only time bukowski said he felt ashamed of his poverty and/or being poor? it may have been mentioned in one of his novels...
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

Was it in Factotum when he was walking in the rain with his shoe polish-covered suitcase and it rubbed all over his trouser leg and the high yellow called him "poor white trash?"

Ans: No, it wasn't. I thought I remembered a mention of feeling embarrassed at the time, but no.
 
David

David

When his turn signal wouldn't work on his VW and he had to put out his aching arm (aching from sorting mail) to make the turn?
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
wasn't it something about Buk being on the racetrack and asking the guy responsible for parking cars to pick up his old car?
 
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Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
..or when he couldn't afford to put a gravestone on Jane's grave?
I remember her no-good son never did so, even though he promised Buk.
 
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roni

roni

"I drove the car along. Somehow, that had hurt.
Maybe all the years of poverty had just given me a certain look.
[...] I still felt diminished."

(Hollywood, chpt 9)

NOPE! I don't think that was it, since it was more about a real estate than a car. But just read that one and found it matching - somehow.
 
james

james

no answer? ok, he was tryin' to start his car outside of a wealthy woman's house in the hollywood hills and the neighbors were staring at him. he was embarassed and just wanted to get the hell out and mentioned being ashamed of his poverty, and it was a rare feeling.

how about this: what does "cold dogs in the courtyard" refer to?
 
bospress.net

bospress.net

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i thought so too, but many of these appeared in Outsider, SF Review, etc, before being published in CDitC.

I know that Bukowski chose these and seem to remember reading that they were rejected in the intro, though...

bIll
 
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