Style - Charles Bukowski

Style - Charles Bukowski

Vi el documental Bukowski: Born Into This y me deja pensando que, cuando un escritor es de mi agrado, entre más cosas despreciables me entero de su vida, entre más cosas negativas me aparecen en la valoración de su persona, más entrañable se me hace. Lejos de las vidas ejemplares, entregadas a causas nobles, de rectitud e intelecto intachable, prefiero los que se equivocan, los que cometieron errores que probablemente cualquier otra persona no hubiese cometido, los que parecen unos estúpidos si no se considerara lo que escriben, los que vivieron vidas desgraciadas; en fin, los que llegan con la espalda cargada de sus derrotas de seres humanos y logran, en la escritura, su redención.

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Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art

Bullfighting can be an art
Boxing can be an art
Loving can be an art
Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Not many have style
Not many can keep style
I have seen dogs with more style than men,
although not many dogs have style.
Cats have it with abundance.

When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,
that was style.
Or sometimes people give you style
Joan of Arc had style
John the Baptist
Christ
Socrates
Caesar
García Lorca.

I have met men in jail with style.
I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.
Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,
or you, walking out of the bathroom, naked, without seeing me.