Hunter takes
Tom Wolfe and Beck both offer their takes on Hunter S. Thompson this morning. I don't have much to add but that Thompson got my adrenaline going more than any writer I've ever read. It's not easy to know whether that was a good or a bad thing, probably because it was both. If you weren't influenced in some way by Thompson, that means you couldn't have read him.
Hunter Thompson was a road warrior, at his very best on the move, in situations where he didn't belong by any conventional standard of belonging. His reporter's prose was that of a wild streetcorner storyteller who really had seen it all, really did what he said he had done, yet still had the inclination in his winged mind to reinvent what he had actually taken in so that his readers would never see things the same way again.
I don't like it when anyone commits suicide, and wish that Hunter had not, but it certainly cannot be said that it was inconsistent with the way he lived or wrote.
Off beyond the clouds with you now, dear fellow.
Hunter Thompson was a road warrior, at his very best on the move, in situations where he didn't belong by any conventional standard of belonging. His reporter's prose was that of a wild streetcorner storyteller who really had seen it all, really did what he said he had done, yet still had the inclination in his winged mind to reinvent what he had actually taken in so that his readers would never see things the same way again.
I don't like it when anyone commits suicide, and wish that Hunter had not, but it certainly cannot be said that it was inconsistent with the way he lived or wrote.
Off beyond the clouds with you now, dear fellow.
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