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					Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop  OK.  But they don't like it.  No one likes it.  Was Bukowski a happy guy?  As Hank is my witness, it's not about liking it. | 
	
 He seemed to have found peace at the end of 
Women.  The stray cat knew he was "a good guy," and that was good enough for him.  
But perhaps you're right.  YMMV on what's liking and what's appreciating a thing's anesthetizing qualities (and for those "hippie chicks until graduation" we all knew, ability to wash away one's upper middle class morality and expose her inner venereal disease aficionado).