![]() ![]() “It was magic,” Bukowski later recounted. His friend William “Baldy” Mullinax-fictionalized as Eli LaCrosse in Bukowski’s semiautobiographic novel Ham on Rye-was the first to introduce him to alcohol. Though hardly rare among some of our culture’s most famous writers, Bukowski had a lifelong relationship with alcohol that began as a young teen. In other words, you have all the pretense beat out of you.” 2. ![]() “This was very good literary training for me,” he said, adding that the abuse taught him how to type: “The link is, when you get the sh*t kicked out of you long enough … you have a tendency to say what you really mean. Bukowski referred to his childhood as a horror story with a “capital H.” When asked why in a 1981 interview for Italian TV, Bukowski shared that he had been “beaten with a razor strop three times a week from the age of 6 until 11” by his father. ![]()
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