Fear & Loathing
My hero is dead. On Sunday night, he shot himself in the head.
No one thought that Hunter S. Thompson, the voice of
Hunter Stockton Thompson was born in
In 1966 he published his first book, “Hell’s Angels,” a pretty straight-forward account of the year he spent researching and riding with the motorcycle gang. Five years later he published his masterpiece, “Fear and Loathing in
As a writer, Thompson’s magic was in stringing together six or seven ugly words with negative connotations. His long, flowing sentences were at once brutally scathing and hilarious.
“It would be easy to say that we owe it all to the Bush family from
Thompson was a wordsmith of the first degree. His dangerous lifestyle was fodder for his many articles in Rolling Stone and, most recently, on ESPN.com. He lived recklessly, wrote recklessly, and died that way, too.
The legacy that Hunter S. Thompson leaves behind is a rich one. He will be eulogized in a million beautiful ways. Gerry Goldstein, a prominent
The “Gonzo” style of Hunter Thompson’s writing has been imitated by many, accomplished by none. When attempted, it always comes off cheap, like flea-market perfume. And that is what the world has lost: the one person who could do that well.
Wherever Hunter S. Thompson is today is a more dangerous place now. And a better one. Mahalo, Hunter. Goodbye, dear friend. We’ll miss you.
-From Pulse
February 24, 2005
0 comments:
Post a Comment