“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and 5 times out of 9 I’ll show you an exceptional man.”
– Charles Bukowski, 6-27-67, over 19th bottle of beer.
“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”
– Charles Bukowski, 6-27-67, over 20th bottle of beer.
Often, the state of the kitchen is the state of the mind, confused and unsure men, pliable men are the thinkers. Their kitchens are like their minds, cluttered with garbage, dirty ware, impurity, but they are aware of their mind-state and find some humor in it. At times, with a violent burst of fire they defy the eternal deities and come up with a lot of shining that we sometimes call creation; just as at times they will get half drunk and clean up their kitchens. But soon again all falls into disorder and they are in darkness again, in need of BABO, pills, prayer, sex, luck and salvation. The man with the ever-orderly kitchen is the freak, however. beware of him. His kitchen-state is his mind-state: all in order, settled, he has let life condition him quickly to a basened and hardened complex of defensive and soothing thought-order. If you listen to him for ten minutes you will know that anything he says in a lifetime will be essentially meaningless and always dull. He is a cement man. There are more cement men than other kinds of men. So if you are looking for a living man, first check his kitchen and save yourself time.
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