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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
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Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
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The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.
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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"
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There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.
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We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit... You must realize that we've found the main nerve." I know," he said. "That's what gives me the Fear.
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But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!
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I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps
Hunter S. Thompson
Born:
July 18, 1937
Died:
February 20, 2005
(aged 67)
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