Trivia part III

[d gray]

drink and screw?

 

[Black Swan]

Something about go play the horses?

you are getting hot, Hans.
Can you get more specific? Or, all you get is a blue star.:cool:

Bukfan, I'd say you're up ! Here is what he said.

"I'd send them all to the racetrack and force them to bet $5 on each race."
He also thinks that the diffusion of talent usually occurs among young writers in their twenties who don't have enough experience, who don't have enough meat to pick off the bone.
I quote:" you can't write without living and writing all the time is not living."

 

[Bukfan]

Black Swan, I don't know where you found that $5 bet quote, but I remembered something similar from the short story, "Goodbye Watson" ("Erections"/"Tales Of Ordinary Madness"), in which he says, "If I ever taught a class in creative writing, one of my prerequisites would be that each student must attend a racetrack once a week and place at least a 2 dollar win wager on each race...".

Okay, next question:

Where was the poem, "The Crunch", first published?

 

[Black Swan]

I read it in All's Normal Here.
A Charles Bukowski Primer, Ruddy Duck Press 1985.
Editor,Loss Glazier.

 

[Bukfan]

I see! I have'nt got that one. Not yet, anyway...

 

[Black Swan]

Bukfan, you'd asked the ? three years ago.

The Crunch
Second Coming. Vol. 5 No. 1 - 1977

Is that it? :)

 

[Bukfan]

I asked the same question three years ago? Jezuz, my memory is failing me, but yours seems to be on top.
Yes, that's the answer! Your turn!

 

[Black Swan]

on a different thread! There were three versions of the poem and you were wondering which one was the original.

 

[Bukfan]

That's right! You have a good memory. Anyway, your turn!

 

[Black Swan]

In 1963, Bukowski wrote a rhyming poem, for Wormwood, ending with ect.
What is the title?

 

[marina del rey]

I believe it was actually titled "Rhyming poem".

 

[Black Swan]

yup! you're up!

 

[marina del rey]

Okay, sticking with the same theme: What was his last poem published in Wormwood that rhymed?

 

[Purple Stickpin]

No title to this one; it's in the final issue, The Marvin Malone Festschrift (145/146):

MALONE, MALONE
THE DIRTY OLD
CRONE, WE ALL
THROW HIM THE
POETRY
BONE.

 

[marina del rey]

10-4 good buddy, you're up.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

There may be more than one answer to this, so I'll be the impartial judge Hathorne. There is a specific answer to this one, however.

What did Buk cite as his main reason for hating travel?

 

[Ponder]

I guess nobody knows the answer to the question.
Next question?

 

[roni]

I thought his main reason for hating travel was everything about it.

 

[Black Swan]

Let's say it is because he couldn't drink as much as he wanted.

 

[Black Swan]

He hated to leave LA.

PS, you need to give us a clue.

 

[Ponder]

Wake up, I'm not him.

 

[Black Swan]

Go back to sleep, Ponder, I'm not talking to you! :D

 

[Black Swan]

He missed the track!

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Right-o, Black Swan. Sorry to be late, but this thread was hibernating for so long I'd forgotten about it.

 

[Black Swan]

Right-o, meaning what, PS?
Is anyone close? we want to play. ;)

 

[Purple Stickpin]

He misses the track is correct.

 

[Black Swan]

Bukowski is drinking, and reflecting on his drinking buddies, who have passed away...
He writes a poem and dreams of a type of bird of the DIOMEDEIDAE family.
Perhaps compares himself to the bird, as a kind near extinction.
What kind of bird does he refer to, and what is the title of the poem?

 

[Gerard K H Love]

The bird is easy but now I have to reread every poem I have to find both references.

 

[Black Swan]

That'd be pure madness, wouldn't it be?

 

[Black Swan]

Okay! here is the answer. I guess my question sucked. The bird is the albatross and the poem a fine madness.
...
I have join the great drunks of
the century:
Li Po, Toulouse-Lautrec, Crane, Faulkner.
I have been selected...

Next!