Not really a lesson learned, but a line that stayed with me. I forget which book it’s in, maybe Post Office, but he writes about a winning streak he had at the track. It was so good he either quit or took a leave of absence from his job. He woke late, enjoyed steak and scotch, then ambled down to the track. And then he says, “it was a great life, and I did not tire of it.”
All our lives, we’re told that wealth won’t buy happiness, that the only true fulfillment comes from hard work, and that getting what we want will only lead to misery. But here’s Bukowski describing a life of utter self-indulgence, and saying he never got tired of it. Profound.
That I shouldn’t try to be a writer
Take five minutes to mourn the red head and then move on with my day.
I don’t know, but I really enjoyed reading his books.
What were any takeaways from them?
That other people’s bullshit is just that. Not to take myself too seriously. To let life strip away what’s not wanted, and be at peace with the rest. Reading his books was a relief for me, in a way that’s hard to describe. Maybe I’m just the same kind of asshole he was, idk.
One really stupid quote that I think is his, about how people will run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water. Of course they do, Charles. Wildly different situations with water being the only link.
Reading ham on rye right now and there is some disturbing content in there and I’m only a quatre of the way thru
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Absolutely nothing, never heard of him.
Nice
This is the guy that got the Intersect into his head, right?
