The Love is a Dog from Hell Oracle
While wandering around the bookstore I spotted a stack of books by Charles Bukowski. Charles Bukowski*. In National Bookstore. Will wonders never cease.
They had Slouching Toward Nirvana; Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way; Pulp; Women; and others. This title jumped off the shelf.
I opened the book at random and the first poem I read was about a dog who had been hit by a car. Dammit I couldn’t leave the book after that, it would be like leaving the dog bleeding on the street.
So now I use the book as an oracle. I ask a question, open the book, read out the first lines I see, and there’s my answer. For instance: “Love is a Dog from Hell, what about people who want to write?”
Love is a Dog from Hell said:
Click on the image to read the poem, I’m too lazy to type it out.
Excellent advice.
* If you’ve never heard of Charles Bukowski, he’s the guy Mickey Rourke played in Barfly.
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Cacs and Momelia, don’t forget our coffee at 3pm. I’ll be the one in the weird earrings.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
November 29th, 2010 at 00:17
Weird earrings. Got it. Haha.
November 29th, 2010 at 08:13
Bukowski is fantastic. I just got an anthology of his poems called “Pleasures of the Damned”. You might like one poem called ‘Dinosauria, We’, but it is in his collection called “Last Night of the Earth Poems”. Seriously, I heard that poem once and got hooked. There’s also a kickass documentary on him called Bukowski: Born Like This which is fascinating. It has footage of him reading some of his poetry in an auditorium.
November 29th, 2010 at 13:01
ooh, i love oracles. can you please be my medium and ask LOVE IS THE DOG FROM HELL, what do i do to make up for falling short of a friend’s expectations? thank you.
November 29th, 2010 at 13:56
I’ll be the gay one. Ahaha, see you there Madame and Cacs!
November 29th, 2010 at 17:07
I wonder if something like this will ever be given as prize for the LitWit Challenge.
November 29th, 2010 at 18:12
Thanks for coffee Madame! I had a wonderful time! And it was nice meeting you, Cacs, you brilliant straight thing you!
November 30th, 2010 at 02:00
Likewise, Momelia. You super writer, math wiz you! Haha.
November 30th, 2010 at 02:17
Cacs, Momelia: Get a room.
November 30th, 2010 at 04:57
I knew that was coming.
November 30th, 2010 at 10:19
Three unhappy love affairs before getting it right?! I haven’t even started yet! Note to self: must get my own dog from hell. Thanks, jessica for the tip.
December 1st, 2010 at 12:49
“I’ll be the one in the weird earrings.”
This is one reason I am a fan. Mediocre people would have said, “you know who I am”. I hate people who say that in meetings, conferences, etc.
December 1st, 2010 at 12:51
Constance: Or “Kilala mo ba kung sino ako?” Hinde! Cheero.