Posted on 04/26/2005 2:23:15 PM PDT by rellimpank
By James G. Poulos Published 4/26/2005 12:06:02 AM In a recent Sunday New York Times, Rich Cohen, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, threw another elegiac log on the funeral pyre of Hunter S. Thompson, favorite uncle of the nation's nattering nabobs of nostalgia.
What is clear from the piece -- which skips, like all the other Thompson eulogies, from Fear and Loathing straight to his final years
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Thompson was, finally, was just another news whore. Now he's a dead news whore, killed in cowardice.
Dan
Thanks. Great article. Hunter Thompson (like Quentin Tarrantino's movies) couldn't help but produce a modern versions of the medieval morality play in his writing. Like Hazel Motes, the main character in Flannery O'Connor's novel Wise Blood, Thompson could never outrun a pronounced sense of the reality of good and evil. I'm not trying to nominate him for sainthood, but in his failure to escape that reality (no matter how hard he tried) may lie his redemption.
I just finished Fear And Loathing on The Campaign Trail '72. It was a pretty darned fun read, and I was surprised at how many current political players are present in it as young men.
--I'm gonna be spending the summer in SD with lots of time to read so intend to start at the beginning and read all of his stuff--
I'm switching back and forth this summer between Hunter Thompson and P.J. O' Rourke. I'm reading "Age and Guile" right now.
BTW, what are you doing in SD/ Working or taking it easy?
--more or less retired--planning to work at least part-time--I'm hoping to expose myself to a mountain lion sometime this summer (on my terms-not the cat's--)--
We have plenty lately. They've taken to roaming the plains even. I surprised one in a gulch close to Chamberlain on horseback. Pretty cool.
Goodbye Hunter!
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