05-08-2015, 10:19 AM
I love this one as well Todd! Bukowski writes a lot about the absence of 'spark', passion and soul in people and he does it in a very clever way but it is true that he sometimes comes across as arrogant and judgmental.
@rayheinrich I believe that most of his work is indeed a reflection of himself and perhaps through his writing he inculpates people who are like him in a try to convince himself or the world of his dissociation from them. I've read somewhere that the people who really knew him described him as a completely different man from the man that he comes across to be from his writing.
I can't deny though that I love Charles and I also can't deny that when I read his work I feel as if, as you put it, I am a God myself, up on that mountain, looking down at the pathetic people who are just like me. I acknowledge that they are like me and I am like them but when I am up that mountain, far away from them I can pretend I am not one of them and get rid of the guild that surrounds me when I am not up there and that is cathartic! Of course though it's very hypocritical pretending to be superior and I can understand why some people hate him but I personally love him!
Here's another Poem of Bukowski I love:
"Lifedance"
The area dividing the brain and the soul
is affected in many ways by
experience —
some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
some lose both and become:
accepted.
@rayheinrich I believe that most of his work is indeed a reflection of himself and perhaps through his writing he inculpates people who are like him in a try to convince himself or the world of his dissociation from them. I've read somewhere that the people who really knew him described him as a completely different man from the man that he comes across to be from his writing.
I can't deny though that I love Charles and I also can't deny that when I read his work I feel as if, as you put it, I am a God myself, up on that mountain, looking down at the pathetic people who are just like me. I acknowledge that they are like me and I am like them but when I am up that mountain, far away from them I can pretend I am not one of them and get rid of the guild that surrounds me when I am not up there and that is cathartic! Of course though it's very hypocritical pretending to be superior and I can understand why some people hate him but I personally love him!
Here's another Poem of Bukowski I love:
"Lifedance"
The area dividing the brain and the soul
is affected in many ways by
experience —
some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
some lose both and become:
accepted.