Do You Struggle Against Mediocrity?

Have you heard of the movie "Factotum"?

It is based on a Charles Bukowski story and starring Matt Dillon (Henry Chinaski), Lili Taylor (Jan), Marisa Tomei (Laura), Fisher Stevens (Manny), Didier Flamand (Pierre), and more.

Published when Bukowski was in his mid-50’s and starting to reach a wider readership, "Factotum" presents the age-old struggle of man against mediocrity.

Henry Chinaski alias Matt Dillon, is the heroic survivor of countless benders, brawls, rejection slips, crazy women and soul-killing, mind-deadening jobs.

(What's new about that?)

I was just reading the review in the N.Y. Times, and came across this great Bukowski quote:

"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed" — there is, naturally, a scatological dimension to this list — "brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"

In "Factotum" Henry answers this most reasonable question mostly by trying to avoid working -- or at least working too hard, for other people.

What are the other options?

Let me know if you find the answer...

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