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Yes, because they held the same job and had similar strengths and weaknesses. ...
by dgfgfdagasdfgfa 10y ago
Yes, because they held the same job and had similar strengths and weaknesses.
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- paganel 10y agoJudging by Kafka's journal his job was at least as mentally taxing as Bukowski's job at the post office (or at least his recollection of it). And yes, I agree with you, we all have different strengths and weaknesses, people like Bukowski seem to be weak when it comes to keeping a 9-to-5 job while still managing to write something down. I'm sure though that he also had his strengths (his writing doesn't seem bad, even though I'm only judging him by the words written in this letter). Bukowski also seems to be a bad reader of characters in asking himself why do people choose to keep those 9-to-5 jobs. Answer: they do it in order to pay rent/mortgage and to have money for food and to buy clothes for their kids (if they can afford to have kids).
- dgfgfdagasdfgfa 10y agoI mean, I don't even know what "weak" means. Maybe Bukowski just found the job too draining to write, whereas Kafka found it was inspiring. You can't write people off into categories of strength and weakness without understanding them—weakness in one area does not imply a weak person. In fact, I'd say a decent short-hand to finding unempathetic people are people who use words like "lazy", "weak", and "undeserving".