Elements of Fante's writing that Bukowski left out of his own

[Bruno Dante]

pretty easy, apparently. you're quite quick w/the censorship hammer there, Chairman Mao. cute little autocracy you've got here. of course, the sheeple here will fall right in line: Bukowski.Net - No Honest Criticism Allowed!

i didn't exactly disappear last time i was here. i actually thought i was banned. turns out, it was only the thread that was censored. you guys will have to forgive me; i'm not too forum savvy. i don't spend too much time on these sites to be honest. you know, being a grown man and all...

stavrogin, glad you remember me! you're still here! wow. you guys ever work some shitty job as a teen and return years later only to see the same shitty people doing the same shitty things. depressing. nice post though! clean, tight sentences and only 1 adjective. well done m'boy!

true story: i was peeking around before i re-signed up (mjpiss-ant just banned me, for all those who might be interested. yes(sigh), i am 'the stone') and i read the site intro and some of mjp's posts and so forth. and i swear on everything that's holy, i thought to myself: this guy's got 'failed writer' written all over him. i was amused beyond words when i later found it to be true.

anyway, i suppose i could be civil if you keep me around, mjp. otherwise i'll just keep re-signing up. not because i really wanna be a member, but because i think you're a little shook at the moment. do i make you nervous, old son?

Assuming the people (sheeple ffs :D) on here are as sad as you say, what does that make you, exactly?

 

[D. Ebenezar]

Hannah, never thought about the adverb thing with Fante, before. And some of us have to remember that Fante wrote Ask the Dust and Wait for Spring before he got into writing screenplays, but that style obvioulsy lent itself to screenplays, since a lot of directors and actors need adverbs like "gingerly" and "sleepily" to tell them how to do it. I haven't read Fante's mature fiction, I am guessing the stuff he dictated to his wife? But the early stuff, I kind of took it as a young man's peception and romantic flair, the character's perception more than an emphatic stylistic imprint of Fante's. Like if Bandini was 30, I feel those adverbs would probably not be there.