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I always love his randomness but at a point it was somehow a bit troublesome to digest. \n\nSome seem fictional (?) while most are various daily encounters and meets, on Bukowski's viewpoints (the revolution and literature stuff are among my favourite; am gonna listen to your advice, sir) or that odd conversations he had. Baseball, horse racing, of that women he knows\u002Fmet and booze, some crime-psychological stuff and coincidences-- as this book actually consists of selection from a print column for an underground paper I find it as more to a storytelling than an 'article'. Nevertheless, few writings are my favourite-- of Jack and Harry, and that story of goldcolored with green polka dots Henry Beckett. 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