#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
O lord, he said, Japanese women, real women, they have not forgotte… bowing and smiling closing the wounds men have made; but American women will kill you l…
the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from
often it is the only thing between you and impossibility. no drink,
don’t undress my love you might find a mannequin: don’t undress the mannequin you might find my love.
I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...
it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk-cop. And she started coming in and telling me about a guy who wore a purple stick pin and was a “real gentleman.” “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old ...
she only fucks the ones she doesn’… to marry. to the others she says you’ve got to marry me. or maybe she just fucks the ones s…
Van Gogh cut off his ear gave it to a prostitute who flung it away in extreme
But the next morning it was the sa… “That’s all, Chinaski. Nothing fo… It went on for a week. I sat ther… Then Bobby Hansen, one of the old… “I don’t care. I’m not kissing hi…
Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...
