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Petey

Petey

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Hey Bukfan - i don`t know exactly if the interview was printed somewhere else does not matter anyway because Roni gave the correct answer.

Hey Roni go ahead with a new question !
 
roni

roni

He was obviously thinking of Buk's 'Schopenhauer-ian'-side.
The feeling of 'not-getting-involved', standing on the outside, being a loner, let the world go its way but leave ME alone.
Something like that. In this perspective he was totally right.

I'm too fucked up now to think of a new question, but maybe I'll scan the interview for you (it's only one column) and post here.
 
Petey

Petey

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Hey Roni are you still too fucked up to think of a new question ?
Come on man , enjoy the sunshine go out and let's have a drink in one of Bambergs beer garden.
After the third one you are able to ask a REALLY TOUGH one for the crowd.
 
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roni

roni

I'll give you a not so tough one:
What was the job of Tom Moto at the beginning and what was it at the end?
 
Petey

Petey

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Tom Moto was a character mentioned in the novel "Post Office" he started
as a sub (temporary employment) and made career to a controller.
 
roni

roni

I guess, you're talking about people who were not only 'poets' but also friends.
Friends from the late 60s/early70s maybe?
I can guess who is it, but want somebody else to answer: Am very short of an idea for the next quest.
 
mjp

mjp

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John Thomas and Gerald Locklin.


Here's a good one: Bukowski talked (and wrote) about an incident where he (accidentally?!) screwed a man named "Baldy." He claimed that he was drunk and Baldy was in his bed with his back toward him, and he assumed that Baldy was a woman.

What was the name of the woman Bukowski thought he was romancing?
 
Petey

Petey

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John Thomas and Gerry Locklin was the correct answer!

In the german translation of "Notes.." were TWO women mentioned called Mitzi and Betty.

My turn?
 
mjp

mjp

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I'm taking the answer from a Bukowski interview, and it is not Mitzi and/or Betty...though it may have been a different name every time he told the story.
 
cirerita

cirerita

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ok, an easy one. as I said, Sanford Dorbin edited The Days. However, Martin thought the book was too long and a few poems were purged and left on the editing floor. However, as early as April 1970 those "leftover" poems were put aside for a different book which would come out some years later. Which was the title of that book?
 
Petey

Petey

RIP
mjp said:
I'm taking the answer from a Bukowski interview, and it is not Mitzi and/or Betty...though it may have been a different name every time he told the story.
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Hey mjp,
Well Cirerita started with a new question and that`s fine but what was the
answer Bukowski gave in the interview?
 
mjp

mjp

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He said her name was Mystery. That comes from John Thomas and Philomene Long's book, Bukowski in the Bathtub.
 
skbruce

skbruce

cirerita said:
However, as early as April 1970 those "leftover" poems were put aside for a different book which would come out some years later. Which was the title of that book?
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Since Days was published in 1969 and since I'm guessing a majority of those "leftover" poems probably had to do with Jane, I'm going to guess "Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame" which is selected poems from 1955 through 1973.
 
cirerita

cirerita

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yep... though I think someone picked up those leftovers from the editing floor and used them for Fire Station.

I certainly didn't know Play the Piano had been 9 years in the making, so to speak.
 

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hobart

hobart

Damn fine question and answer Cirerita. Give me just few minutes to come up with a question that will work ... thanks.
 
hobart

hobart

Easy to look up better if already known-
One of my favorite shorts by Buk is Class.
After knocking out Papa, Henry is asked a series of questions including:
"What do you do?"
"What is your occupation?"
"Do you have a hobby?"
What are the answers he gives?

maybe not the greatest question but when you are at work what are you supposed do, eh?
 
mjp

mjp

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cirerita said:
yep... though I think someone picked up those leftovers from the editing floor and used them for Fire Station.

I certainly didn't know Play the Piano had been 9 years in the making, so to speak.
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Those early (pre-1970) books and magazine appearances are interesting, you can see that not many poems went to waste. They were used and reused and published all over the place.

So did Bukowski do more self-editing pre-1970, or did the flow just increase that much once he quit the post office? Or both. ;)

Please respond soon, I am writing a paper for school and need the answers!
 
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