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Charles Bukowski South Of No North. Stories of the buried life
Table of contents Loneliness............................................................................................................................... 1 Bop bop against that curtain................................................................................................... 5 You and your beer and how great you are ............................................................................. 9 Politics.................................................................................................................................. 13 No way to paradise............................................................................................................... 16 A couple of winos ................................................................................................................ 24 Maja Thurup......................................................................................................................... 28 The killers............................................................................................................................. 32 A man ................................................................................................................................... 37 Class ..................................................................................................................................... 40 Stop staring at my tits, Mister .............................................................................................. 44 Something about a Viet Cong Flag ...................................................................................... 47 Remember Pearl Harbor? ..................................................................................................... 52 Dr. Nazi ................................................................................................................................ 59 Christ on rollerskates............................................................................................................ 63 A shipping clerk with a red nose.......................................................................................... 67 The devil was hot ................................................................................................................. 72 Guts ...................................................................................................................................... 83 Hit man ................................................................................................................................. 87 This is what killed Dylan Thomas........................................................................................ 90 No neck and bad as hell........................................................................................................ 93 The way dead love................................................................................................................ 97 All the assholes in the world and mine .............................................................................. 105 Confessions of a man insane enough to live with beasts ................................................... 115
LONELINESS Edna was walking down the street with her bag of groceries when she passed the automobile. There was a sign in the side window: WOMAN WANTED. She stopped. There was a large piece of cardboard in the window with some material pasted on it. Most of it was typewritten. Edna couldn't read it from where she stood on the sidewalk. She could only see the large letters: WOMAN WANTED. It was an expensive new car. Edna stepped forward on the grass to read the typewritten portion: Man age 49. Divorced. Wants to meet woman for marriage. Should be 35 to 44. Like television and