Hunter S Thompson Legacy turns 72, today
“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ‘the rat race’ is not yet final.”
—The Great Shark Hunt, 1979
I write this note in great respect today for all the expert advice HST has supplied me over my expendable course. On this day, July the 18th, 2000 and 9, the Good Doctor is alive and well in the form of crumpled and preserved words and pages that serve every purpose for us here now. The inducting of Fear and Loathing: On The Campaign Trail ’72 into the Modern Library is upon us. Visit http://www.petitiononline.com/GONZOHST/petition.html to personally authorize its position alongside the best there is among writers and literats. Hell’s Angels and Fear and Loathing have already marred their way through the thick of fitful potential, let’s commemorate the fall of Nixon and any others with no faith in prophesy, today, on July the 18th, with two cheers and two bottles of absinthe, and a ratification.
“The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favour during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the acid era — but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover; a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.” Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 (1973)
Yours,
-Juanita Caruso
