Hunter
Hunter S. Thompson
He made journalism look like fun because he was so much fun to read - too much fun for us to ruin it by worrying about whether all of his facts were actually factual or whether the dark shadows of personal danger that lurked shark-like beneath the dazzling waves of his rants, revelations and screeds might someday drag him under.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro," Mr. Thompson once wrote. He was weird but he made it work. A lesser reporting talent who took Mr. Thompson's liberties with facts and invective would be fired and forgotten, but Dr. Gonzo was blessed with a gift for producing richly detailed, colorfully written, darkly amusing journeys into American subcultures that became instant classics.
But all envy now evaporates. His fabulous high-wire act has come crashing down before our eyes, despite the glimmers of hope he occasionally showed that he might take charge of his inner lunacies before they took charge of him.
I am STILL crushed. My idol has slain himself and died in the least honorable way possible. Such a legend, Hunter S. Thompson may now finally get the respect and attention, only a fallen genius can get. Why do people only start being interested in such an amazing author/journalist after his death? Either way. I have learned so much from you HUNTER and you truly are/was/always will be my hero. I will continue to absorb as much knowledge and insight from your literary work as I can, and I will never forget the fact that you are one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
R.I.P. Hunter S. Thompson
He made journalism look like fun because he was so much fun to read - too much fun for us to ruin it by worrying about whether all of his facts were actually factual or whether the dark shadows of personal danger that lurked shark-like beneath the dazzling waves of his rants, revelations and screeds might someday drag him under.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro," Mr. Thompson once wrote. He was weird but he made it work. A lesser reporting talent who took Mr. Thompson's liberties with facts and invective would be fired and forgotten, but Dr. Gonzo was blessed with a gift for producing richly detailed, colorfully written, darkly amusing journeys into American subcultures that became instant classics.
But all envy now evaporates. His fabulous high-wire act has come crashing down before our eyes, despite the glimmers of hope he occasionally showed that he might take charge of his inner lunacies before they took charge of him.
I am STILL crushed. My idol has slain himself and died in the least honorable way possible. Such a legend, Hunter S. Thompson may now finally get the respect and attention, only a fallen genius can get. Why do people only start being interested in such an amazing author/journalist after his death? Either way. I have learned so much from you HUNTER and you truly are/was/always will be my hero. I will continue to absorb as much knowledge and insight from your literary work as I can, and I will never forget the fact that you are one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
R.I.P. Hunter S. Thompson