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Date Posted: 00:19:01 10/05/04 Tue
Author: em the naz
Author Host/IP: 24.18.140.3
Subject: I saw that movie...
In reply to: volt-lite 's message, "well" on 22:53:04 10/04/04 Mon

he beat up the bartender.

I might watch it again.

and this time I might pay special attention to how
he tricked himself into yet another day.... not all that
far from where i'm at, now.

God, he kicked that guy's ass. No contest.
Bukowski was real.
>
>Gilgamesh, King of Uruk lived in about 2700, and the
>legend is that many stories/myths were written from
>that approx. date forwards, some of which became the
>epic....
>
>Really, you are somehow obsessed with this
>politeness-civility issue. When you read ( you do read
>sometimes don't you?) your favorite novelists or
>journalists or poets, do you judge them on whether
>they are adhering to your "niceness code"?? Ever read
>Mailer? He's one of the most violent writers I have
>read, but some of his stuff is decent (Executioner's
>Song), and occasionally the violence and obscenity is
>essential. Violence, obscenity, crassness, injustice,
>cruelty, nature red in tooth and claw: real writers
>address those topics. Is Ellison's Invisible Man nice
>and buddhistic? No. What about the Litkicks pantheon:
>Bukowski? You think he was some peaceful polite dude?
>I think not; nor were most of the other beats and
>freaks you flount....

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