#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
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a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen flo… scrubbed the walls vacuumed
absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,
the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
The next time you listen to Borod… remember he was just a chemist who wrote music to relax; his house was jammed with peor e: students, artists, drunkards, bur…
he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets
has been going on for some time. there is this young waitress where… at the racetrack. how are you doing today?” she asks… winning pretty good,” I reply.
Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...
My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...
I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips
I was a bum in San Francisco but… to go to a symphony concert along… and the music was good but somethi… audience was not and something about the orchestra
I don’t know how many bottles of b… I have consumed while waiting for… to get better. I don’t know how much wine and whi… and beer
you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the