Monday, February 21, 2005
Man I've Never Read/Movie I've Never Seen
The Associated Press
Monday, February 21, 2005
DENVER Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like ‘‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,’’ fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was 1st published in installments in the November 1971 issues of the Rolling Stone magazine. It was an immediate success as a book in which Hunter S. Thompson?s alter ego, Raoul Duke, and his Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo (who happens to be Oscar Zeta Acosta) drive from L.A. to Las Vegas with their trunk full of:
"...two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.....also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls...but the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge..."
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Posted by: Beatrix at February 21, 2005 04:48 AM
*****
Charlotte Haze: Do you believe in God?
Humbert Humbert: The question is does God believe in me?
Lolita, Directed by Stanley Kubrick / Writing credits Vladimir Nabokov (novel/screenplay)
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