THE OPEN ENDED IT

Self portrait by S.A. Griffin

"There from the beginning at last, the tease of infinity grins." - S.A. Griffin

"I think it is important to know that a writer can live and die anywhere. I think it's important to know that a writer can live in Los Angeles for a lifetime without ever having visited Grauman's Chinese or The Wax Museum or Barney's Beanery or Disneyland, or without ever having attended a Tournament of Roses Parade. I think it is important to know that a man or woman, writer or not, can find more isolation in Los Angeles than in Boise, Idaho. Or, all things being fair, he can (with a telephone) have 19 people over drinking and talking with him within an hour and a half. I have bummed the cities and I know this - the great facility of Los Angeles is that one can be alone if he wishes or he can be in a crowd if he wishes. No other city seems to allow this easy double choice as well. This is a fairly wonderful miracle, especially if one is a writer."

foreword from Laugh Literary's Anthology of L.A. Poets - 4/11/72 by Charles Bukowski

Bukowski's typer. Photo by Cait Collins

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