Bukowski, Charles: a postám (the mail in Hungarian)
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the mail (English)the mail gets heavier. more and more letters telling me what a great writer I am, plus poems, novels, novelettes, short stories, paintings. some just want an autograph, a drawing, a word. suggest an ongoing correspondence.
I read everything, dump every- thing, go about my business.
I am aware that no man is a "great" writer. he may have been a great writer, but it's a process which begins again and over again and all the praise, the cigars, the bottles of wine sent in honor will not get the next line down, and that's all that counts, the past is useless, now is in the laps of the gods as the centuries fall away in their rotten swift luxury.
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a postám (Hungarian)a postám egyre vaskosabb.
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