By Charles Bukowski
South of No North includes a few of Bukowski's most sensible paintings. one of the brief tales accrued within the publication are Love for $17.50, a few guy named Robert whose infatuation with a model in a junk store leads him first to shop for it, then make like to it, after which finally fall in love with "her," a lot to the consternation of his real-life female friend; Maja Thurup, a few South American tribesman with a massive penis who's dropped at la via the lady anthropologist who has "discovered" him and turn into his lover; and The satan is scorching, approximately an come upon with previous Nick at an entertainment pier in Santa Monica, the place Scratch himself is caged and on demonstrate, fed merely peanut butter and dogfood, exploited through a cynical carnie.
The assortment additionally positive factors of Bukowski's best and most famed brief tales: all of the Assholes on this planet Plus Mine, an autobiographical rumination at the remedy of his hemorrhoids, and Confessions of a guy Insane sufficient to stay With Beasts. (The latter tale initially used to be released as a chapbook of 500 copies through Bensenville Mimeo Press in 1965.)
The brief tales gathered within the quantity are evocative of Bukowski at his top, while he was once one of many foremost brief tale writers nonetheless on the best of his expertise.
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The funny thing about Woodrow Call was how hard he was to keep in scale. He wasn’t a big man—in fact, was barely middle-sized—but when you walked up and looked him in the eye it didn’t seem that way. Augustus was four inches taller than his partner, and Pea Eye three inches taller yet, but there was no way you could have convinced Pea Eye that Captain Call was the short man. Call had him buffaloed, and in that respect Pea had plenty of company. If a man meant to hold his own with Call it was necessary to keep in mind that Call wasn’t as big as he seemed.
Only nine,” Bolivar said. Abruptly, not even getting up, he threw the knife at the nearest wagon, where it stuck, quivering for a moment. The wagon was only about twenty feet away, so it was no great throw, but he wanted to make a point about his feeling for his daughters. Six were married already, but the three left at home were the light of his life. “I hope they take after their mother,” Augustus said. ” His Colt was hanging off the back of the chair and he reached around and got it, took it out of its holster, and idly twirled the chamber a time or two, listening to the pretty little clicks.
She was nearly twenty-four and hadn’t got a mile past Lonesome Dove, which wasn’t fast progress considering that she had only been twelve when her parents got nervous about Yankees and left Mobile. That much slow progress would have discouraged most women, but Lorena didn’t allow her mind to dwell on it. She had her flat days, of course, but that was mostly because Lonesome Dove itself was so flat. She got tired of looking out the window all day and seeing nothing but brown land and gray chaparral.