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The tragic rape of Charles Bukowski’s ghost by Black Sparrow Press (2013)

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Re: The tragic rape of Charles Bukowski’s ghost by Black Sparrow Press (2013)

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Nobody is talking about forbidding . The topic is being a decent human who takes others into account.

> who takes others into account Odd then that you seem so dismissive of the other concerns called out.

Those "concerns" are pretty damn minuscule in comparison.

Re: The tragic rape of Charles Bukowski’s ghost by Black Sparrow Press (2013)

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While word replacements and omissions are bad enough, I totally fail to understand why anyone would have thought that these meandering additions were a good thing? How is this even editing? Edit: While substitutions and what you do, when your Mom sees you writing a piece and points at a word, asking, if you maybe could do without it, are a not so much a necessary thing, the writer of this comment doesn't fully unders…

It never ceases to amaze me that people think they can get away with very obvious stuff, like this editor for example. Bukowski is not some unknown author - he has a good following. Did this editor really think nobody would notice? That nobody would get pissed and complain? I just don’t get it

The title is enough of a hint
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