A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson (886 hits)
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Submitted by FelizJBirth (View user info) at 2005-02-21 01:01:41 EST
I know there has already been a post announcing this, but it's a huge shock to me. I've been a big fan of his books since I was in high school over 10 years ago. When I heard the news, I couldn't help but pick up the copy of "The Great Shark Hunt" on my bookshelf and I found an interesting passage. It reads almost like a suicide note written in 1977. I know it's not original work, but it's topical and I'm depressed so -2 me at will.
EXCERPT FROM AUTHOR'S NOTE - "The Great Shark Hunt"
"I feel like I might as well be sitting up here carving the words for my own tombstone...and when I finish, the only fitting exit will be right straight off this fucking terrace and into The Fountain, 28 stories below and at least 200 yards out in the air and across Fifth Avenue.
Nobody could follow that act.
Not even me...and in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live-(13 years longer, in fact)- and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.
So if I decide to leap for The Fountain when I finish this memo, I want to make one thing perfectly clear - I would genuinely love to make that leap, and if I don't I will always consider it a mistake and a failed opportunity, one of the very few serious mistakes of my First Life that is now ending.
But what the hell? I probably won't do it (for all the wrong reasons), and I'll probably finish this table of contents and go home for Christmas and then have to live for 100 more years with all this goddamn gibberish I'm lashing together.
But, Jesus, it would be a wonderful way to go out...and if I do it you bastards are going to owe me a king-hell 44-gun salute.... "
HST #1, RIP
12/23/1977
He'll be missed. As a tribute, I think everyone on Uber should commit to at least one LSD trip a week from now on. It should make the writing more interesting anyway.
Here's to HST #2, RIP 02/20/2005
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Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2005-05-25 11:58:32 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Sachi (user info) at 2005-02-23 09:08:43 EST (#)
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the guy was a loon and yet the grandfather of uber in some strange way
Submitted by FelizJbirth (user info) at 2005-02-21 22:48:48 EST (#)
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I heard that they made a pretty large acid bust in 1999-2000 seizing something like an estimated 90% of North America's supply. Whether that's true or not I have no idea. I can't find it anywhere, I know that.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-02-21 22:45:02 EST (#)
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LSD?
Not again...too many times...
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-02-21 22:37:46 EST (#)
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Plus two for Thompson, that fucking sucks.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2005-02-21 08:30:49 EST (#)
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I'm heartbroken over this announcement. I want to go home and sit in a daze for the rest of the day.
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2005-02-21 03:24:34 EST (#)
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My little brother was named after this crazy fucker. Honest.
Submitted by FelizJbirth (user info) at 2005-02-21 01:58:41 EST (#)
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http://www.gonzo.org/
That website has a huge collection of stuff about HST including some of his writings, it's worth checking out.
Submitted by FelizJbirth (user info) at 2005-02-21 01:57:50 EST (#)
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Probably fairly decent depending on the library I guess. I've gotten books of his from public libraries before.
Submitted by Timmah (user info) at 2005-02-21 01:56:52 EST (#)
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that's a damn shame. What are the chances of my public library having a copy of the book?
Submitted by Timmah (user info) at 2005-02-21 01:55:58 EST (#)
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Yes
Submitted by FelizJbirth (user info) at 2005-02-21 01:54:04 EST (#)
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Submitted by Timmah (user info) at 2005-02-21 01:50:17 (#)
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Is that the guy wrote fear and loathing in las vegas? Or am I majorly mistaken? He certinaly looks like Depps character
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That's him alright. Also portrayed by Bill Murray in "Where the Buffalo Roam"...
Submitted by Timmah (user info) at 2005-02-21 01:50:17 EST (#)
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Is that the guy wrote fear and loathing in las vegas? Or am I majorly mistaken? He certinaly looks like Depps character
Submitted by Professor (user info) at 2005-02-21 01:37:54 EST (#)
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I feel a pilgramage coming on...
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2005-02-21 01:37:45 EST (#)
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Great fucking picture. I opened my bottle of scotch for him tonight. My reviews should get increasingly stupid as the night goes on. Thanks...
Submitted by Kent_Weirdo (user info) at 2005-02-21 01:10:07 EST (#)
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Just heard on the news.
Well, time to cross "Meet Duke" off of my list of things to do...