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Guided Reading Meditation #4 [Bukowski, Dunno + more] - Project Bibliotherapy

Sunday, June 20 at 9:30am PDT with Nitin Goel. Messrs Bukowski and Dunno invite you for one hour of uninterrupted reading to end yet another week in 'paradise'. Introvert-friendly. Reading list shared on bibliotherapy.scrollstack.com

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As always, happy reading!

ONE SHORT STORY

Factotum (noun) - ‘A man who never had a job he liked; and never kept a job he had.’ Also, one of the more honest novels ever written.

In Bukowski's pseudo-autobiographical masterpiece, the protagonist Mr Chinaski - a broke, nomadic, struggling writer in his 20s - drifts across the American heartland in the 1940s, bouncing from one job to another in order to survive.

The jobs - packing magazines at a magazine publishers' distributing house, compositor's helper at a newspaper, trackman, stock boy in an auto parts warehouse, subway advertisement installer, oven operator in a dog biscuit factory, shipping clerk in a ladies' dress-wear shop, stock/shipping clerk in a bicycle warehouse, receiving clerk at an auto parts warehouse,"extra ball-bearing" at a clothing store, delivery man at a clothes manufacturer, shipping clerk at a fluorescent light fixture company, maintenance man/janitor at the Los Angeles Times, stock clerk in an auto brake supply house, truck driver with the Red Cross, cab driver trainee at Yellow Cab, shipping clerk in an art supply store, warehouse man at a "company specializing in Christmas items," "Coconut Man" at National Bakery Goods, loading dock worker and Sunday manager of the employment office at the Hotel Sans.

The story of how he got his first gig of 21 can be found in the free Kindle preview below...

I. 'Factotum' ~ Charles Bukowski (Chapters 1-4 | 1975)

ONE POEM

Recommended by Ashesh Mitra...

II. 'Funeral Blues' ~ W. H. Auden (1938)

W. H. Auden: “Funeral Blues”

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring…

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ONE EPIC RANT

From a gem which celebrates its 20th anniversary this weekend...

III. The Sam Black Crow monologue from 'American Gods' ~ Neil Gaiman (2001)

ONE CLASSIC TALE FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES

From the personal archives, a long lost Soviet-era treasure digitally restored after 30 years of oblivion...

IV. 'Dunno Takes Music Lessons' ~ Nikolai Nosov (1953)

The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #2 - Dunno Takes Music Lessons

Dunno never could do anything right. He never got beyond reading in syllables, and he could only write printed letters. Some people said his head was empty, but that was not true, because he could not have thought at all if it had been empty. To be sure, he did not think much, but he put his boots on his feet and not on his head, and it takes some thinking to do even that.

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AND MORE...

Charles Bukowski on Acing Job Interviews

Factotum (noun) - ‘A man who never had a job he liked; and never kept a job he had.’

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The Bibliophile's Guide to Bukowski

“Charles Bukowski was a shameless drinker, womanizer, and all-around f*ck up. He would get drunk on stage at his poetry readings and verbally abuse his audience. He gambled a lot of his money away and had an unfortunate habit of exposing himself in public.

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The Bibliophile's Guide to Dunno

Once upon a time, there existed a superpower - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the largest country in the world. Spread across an area of 22 million square kilometers, it covered one-sixth of the Earth's land surface - equivalent to seven times the size of India.

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plus any suggestions which crop up during Clubhouse hour...

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