What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire.

✍ Scribed by Bukowski, Charles

• Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 95 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

$180 gone -- Blue head of death -- Young men -- The meaning of it all -- Guess who? -- I want a mermaid -- An unusual place -- In this city now -- Captain Goodwine -- Morning love -- An old jockey -- Hard times on Carlton Way -- We needed him -- Nana -- Poor Mimi -- A boy and his dog -- The dangerous ladies -- Sloppy love -- Winter : 44th year -- Hollywood Ranch Market -- Rape -- Gone away -- Note left on the dresser by a lady friend -- Legs -- The artist -- Revolt in the ranks -- Life of the king -- The silver mirror -- Hunchback -- Me and Capote -- The savior : 1970 -- La femme finie -- Beast -- Artistic selfishness -- My literary fly -- Memory -- Carlton Way off Western Ave. -- At the zoo -- Coke blues -- Nobody home -- Woman in the supermarket -- Fast track -- Hanging there on the wall -- The hookers, the madmen and the doomed -- Looking for Jack -- Apprentices -- 38, 000-to-one -- A touch of steel -- Brown and solemn -- Time -- Nobody knows the trouble I've seen -- The way it works -- Bright lights and serpents -- Mean and stingy -- $100 -- This particular war -- German bar -- Floor job -- The icecream people -- Like a cherry seed in the throat.;The ordinary café of the world -- On shaving -- School days -- Neither a borrower nor a lender be -- Sometimes even putting a nickel into a parking meter feels good -- Mahler -- Fellow countryman -- The young man on the bus stop bench -- Computer class -- Image -- The crunch (2) -- I'll send you a postcard -- Bravo! -- Downtown -- The blue pigeon -- Combat primer -- Thanks for that -- They arrived in time -- Odd -- An interlude -- Anonymity -- What's it all mean? -- One-to-five -- Insanity -- Farewell my lovely -- Comments upon my last book of poesy -- A correction to a lady of poesy -- Beethoven conducted his last symphony while totally deaf -- On the sidewalk and in the sun -- What do they want? -- I hear all the latest hit tunes -- Am I the only one who suffers thus? -- On lighting a cigar -- The cigarette of the sun -- To lean back into it -- Dog fight 1990 -- I used to feel sorry for Henry Miller -- Locked in -- Wasted -- Sunday lunch at the Holy Mission -- Slaughter -- A vote for the gentle light -- Be alone -- I inherit -- Another day -- Tabby cat -- The gamblers -- The crowd -- Trouble in the night -- 3 old men at separate tables -- The singer -- Stuck with it -- Action on the corner -- No guru -- In this cage some songs are born -- My movie -- A new war -- Roll the dice.;My father and the bum -- Legs, hips and behind -- Igloo -- The mice -- My garden -- Legs and white thighs -- Mademoiselle from Armentieres -- My father's big-time fling -- The bakers of 1935 -- The people -- The pretty girl who rented rooms -- Too soon -- Canned heat? -- Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1939 -- Scene from 1940 -- My big moment -- Daylight saving time -- The railroad yard -- Horseshit -- Man's best friend -- The sensitive, young poet -- Hunger -- The first one -- The night I saw George Raft in Vegas -- No title -- Too many blacks -- White dog -- Blue beads and bones -- Ax and blade -- Some notes on Bach and Haydn -- Born to lose -- Phillipe's 1950 -- In the lobby -- He knows us all -- Victory! -- More argument -- Wind the clock -- What? -- She comes from somewhere -- Lifedance -- The bells -- Full moon -- Everywhere, everywhere -- About a trip to Spain -- Van Gogh -- Vallejo -- When the violets roar at the sun -- The professionals -- The 8 count concerto -- An afternoon in February -- Crickets -- The angel who pushed his wheelchair -- The circus of death -- The man? -- Christmas poem to a man in jail -- Snake eyes? -- My friends down at the corner -- Smiling, shining, singing -- Bruckner -- This moment -- One more good one -- You do it while you're killing flies -- The 12 hour night -- Plants which easily winter kills -- The last poetry reading -- Probably so -- Assault -- Raw with love -- Wide and moving -- Demise -- The pact -- 75 million dollars -- Butterflies -- 4 Christs.