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7.6.06

unas palabritas ajenas...

Air, Light, and Time and Space.

"–you know, I’ve either had a family, a job,
something has always been in the
way
but now
I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I’m going to have
a place and the time to
create."

no baby, if you’re going to create
you’re going to create whether you work
16 hours a day in a coal mine
or
you’re going to create in a small room with 3 children
while you’re on
welfare,
you’re going to create with part of your mind and your body blown
away,
you’re going to create blind
crippled
demented,
you’re going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in earthquake, bombardment,
flood and fire.

baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don’t create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for.
-Charles Bukowski



"Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it."
- Charles Bukowski

2 comments:

Mikel said...

se me hace muy extraño leer bukowski en inglés. hay una peculiaridad bastante común con este escritor que es que no se consiguen demasiado facilmente las copias en versión original. me lei hollywood, factotum, y "lo que mas me gusta es rascarme los sobacos" (entrevista) y todos en castellano.

pero es MUY BUENO

>>apalapapa- said...

yeahpo, aguante bukowsky...(APALAPAPA es un estado donde las arañas se balancean sobre trompas de elefantes y la gente piensa en la pobre piedra con la que se tropieza dos veces el mismo idiota)
te viniste con todo, muchas cosas nuevas de golpe o yo hacía mucho que no entraba?

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