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"As you were, I was. As I am, you will be."

Hunter S. Thompson, 1939-2005.

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=399507

Am I the only one here that suspects he might have been playing Russian Roulette?

he's worthy of at least two threads. old bastard was seeing double most of his life anyhow.

"Too weird to live, to crazy too die"

he's worthy of at least two threads. old bastard was seeing double most of his life anyhow.

Indeed.

From the Author's note in The Great Shark Hunt where he is contemplating throwing himself twenty-eight storey down the side of a building:

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 forty-four-gun slatur (that word is 'salute', goddamnit - and I guess I can't work this elegant typewriter as well as I thought I could)...

But you know I could, If I had just a little more time.

Right?

Yes.

"Too weird to live, to crazy too die"
another of my favorites:

"When the going gets weird, the weird go pro."

One of the reasons I got into journalism. Now he's gone...

Let's just get out of here before those lizards see us!

Sounds like he finally went over the Edge.

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it, because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." Hunter S. Thompson

Unfortunately, the only Hunter Thompson work I am familiar with is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and my experience with that comes purely from the movie...

However, from that one insane ride, I have gotta give the man incredible praise... That movie was one of the most...interesting...movies I have ever seen...

Normally, I thrive on order... I like things to be flying level, and chaos free... (you wouldn't be able to tell it from my messy room, complete with pile of perpetually unfolded laundry... but in most things, I prefer calmness and harmony) For instance, I have been known to get up off the couch, just to walk over to the curtains, and even them out if one happens to be open slightly, or whatnot... I find myself watching movies (especially the "everything goes wrong" types of comedies, like National Lampoon's stuff), and wanting them to tie up all of the loose ends and fix all of the problems that have been caused along the way (and when said movies end with only the major plotline fixed, I can't help but wonder what happened to all of the things that were ruined getting there) Perhaps this is my own brand of Obsessive-Compulsive-ness...lol

I also do not enjoy being drunk... I've only let it happen a few times (because I don't like it, aside from it being a "novel" experience once in a while), and I honestly dislike it... So, you can also guess my stance on drugs and such...

I prefer to be in complete control at all times, and get very frustrated when things are out of control...

So, as you can probably tell, Fear and Loathing made me extremely uncomfortable...lol But I loved every minute of it...

And if it is any kind of window into his overall work, I'm pretty sure I'd love that, too (and one of these days, I'll dive into it)

But yeah, his passing definitely is a sad event...

Oh yeah, my favorite Fear and Loathing quote:

"With a bit of luck his life was ruined forever... Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts were getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know..."

It's a damn shame. Hunter was like that insistent little voice in the back of your mind which, when confronted with the unsurmountable, would absently murmur,'Why the fuck not?'.

Goodbye, Hunter. Goodbye, Raoul Duke. Goodbye, Dr. Gonzo.

The world is diminished by your egress.

"As you were, I was. As I am, you will be."

Hunter S. Thompson, 1939-2005.

'37-'05.

And yes, RIP.

damn, he's gone.

I always wondered when he would finally test that edge one time to many.

Now he has.

He was a crazed genius of a writer, always interesting. Even his rants were great prose most of the time. His observations on America, and other places too, will always be with us. Thankfully.

I will miss him.

I think it will come out that his medical conditions (he had a number of health problems) and probably pain were the reason he took his life. Its not uncommon.

I was so looking forward to his look at the next Presidential race too.

I think it will come out that his medical conditions (he had a number of health problems) and probably pain were the reason he took his life. Its not uncommon.

I was so looking forward to his look at the next Presidential race too.
He made politics fun.

I always secretly wished I could meet him and engage in some immoral behaviour.

*death of my dream*

Anyone see the Independent today.

I was quite surprise it made front page (indeed it took up the whole front page), I never realised he was that well known/cared about over here.

Alas, we have lost one of the more notable writers of the last half of the twentieth century...

ESPN has posted some of the work he did for them

http://proxy.espn.go.com/keyword/searchResults?search=Hunter%20S.%20Thompson&searchType=0&site=espn&referrer=&searchType=0

the best summary of why losing him is so sad is this

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/050221