Notes of a Dirty Old Man | 
#TemptingTitles #WithOld An old City Lights edition.
Went to Word on the Water on Friday, the London book barge, and picked up 2 news books. The first a small Bukowski book called Notes of a Dirty Old Man and the second called Seven Brief Lesson on Physics by Carlo Rovelli 💫 📚
pickI've never read any Bukowski that I've not enjoyed, he's such a brilliant writer that's so descriptive, he's able to take you back to a different era.
He's so vulgar sometimes also which can be difficult for people to digest. He writes what we all are pretty much thinking but just to afraid to say it.
Every time I read something by him he gets me laughing.
Great irreverent writing.
pickWhat can I say except this is Bukowski and what they say is true, he comes across to modern ears as a misogynist and hater of broad swathes of mankind in general, but very few have portrayed the life and the struggles of the poor, the lower working class, those who struggle to survive and seek solace day to day in sex, alcohol and drugs. Bukowski for me feels like Hemingway, often I do not agree with what he says, but I admire how he says it.
A Sunday.evening alternating between Bukowski and the Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut, drinking Whisky and listening to Springsteen‘s Ghost of Old Tom Joad Album - I am not sure this is the best way to get into a Monday workday frame of mind
I'm not sure of the season in which this was published, but the year matches up, so I'm going with this for #SummerOf69. #RockInMay
An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
He, and all of us, are the victims of an attitude that has been growing in our land for nearly a decade - an attitude that says a man can choose the laws he must obey, that he can take the law into his own hands for a cause, that crime does not necessarily mean punishment.
