"Henry Chinaski never cared for the American dream, the thought of
needing to become 'something' and fit into the system disgusts him. He
believes that life is free and yours to live like you see fit, and if
that in some cases involves copious amounts of whiskey then so be it.
Henry spends his days drinking and listening to the radio, and he spends
his nights drinking and fighting against Eddy who he thinks personifies
shallowness and shameless self promoting. Sometimes in the middle of
this he finds the time to jot down a few lines of poetry or a short
story. After fighting Eddy and winning for a change Henry is thrown out
of his regular bar where Eddy is a bartender. This leads him to seek
another watering hole where he happens to find Wanda who is a barfly, in
her own words "if another man came along with a fifth of whiskey, I'd
go with him". Henry is not fazed by this thou and moves in with her. Of
course Wanda immediately goes off and sleeps with Eddy, but after some
clothes ..."
“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived?" Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
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