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Sunday, February 20

Lost in Narration

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
- Hunter S. Thompson.

well I don't know what to say... I'm one of tens of thousands posting this to their blogs. Thompson is required reading and it's a damn shame to have him go. It's funny, I was just talking about him last night over coffee and quoted 'All things flow according to the whim of the great magnet.' Which is why he was a doctor of journalism and i just say things like 'shit happens.'

I remember leaving the Von Lee theater after watching Fear and Loathing - which I thought was one of the most accurate makes of a novel I had ever seen, beat by beat, scene by scene translation - and I heard the kids in the back say 'its just a couple of old guys taking drugs, whatever' -- which goes to show how much can be lost between a novel and a film - even an 'accurate' one. Or maybe they missed the whole point lost in narration:

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle -that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - -on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - -the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.


And in case there is someone or some force tending the light at the end of the tunnel, Hunter, don't take any guff from these fucking swine.

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