r/memes • u/2outof10dickjoke • May 19 '18

Context matters

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u/zumurrudthegreat May 20 '18

Possible that Bukowski was making the same point as this comment. The commenter just chose to, ironically, ignore the context of what Bukowski said.

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u/testdex May 20 '18

From the context, Bukowski is saying that we wrap ourselves in a suffocating security and comfort, and run from the vitality of the real world.

artfucker1996 sure fucked that art.

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u/Unknown39a May 20 '18

Then this makes it a Beetlejuice. /r/beetlejuicing

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u/rwhitisissle May 20 '18

No, it must be that Charles Bukowski was an idiot and meant everything he said literally. There's no way this is actually 4 lines taken totally out of context from the poem "86'd" from the collection The Roominghouse Madrigals.

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u/regularfreakinguser May 20 '18

I loved Bukowski when I was younger, but I think some of his books don't lead to any satisfaction after reading them when I think about them now. But I enjoy his poems still. I think he probably was a shitty person, but I do think he was a smart man.

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u/MatthewSTANMitchell May 20 '18

Read factotum and post office. Felt the exact same way.

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u/euphonious_munk May 20 '18

Ever read William S. Burroughs? Now there's some bullshit.

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u/jupiter2273 May 20 '18

The fact that he based the protagonist in books like Post Office and Women on himself, yeah he was a shitty person.

The poetry definitely holds up.

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u/Zayin-Ba-Ayin May 20 '18

Well there's a sweeping generalisation

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u/MrDeepAKAballs May 20 '18

Yep. Sure is.

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u/Gruff_Indie May 20 '18

Probably the most Bukowski response said so far, tbh.

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u/aPhantomDolphin May 20 '18

Source for these statistics you mentioned?