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"He saw life as the Big Game, and the whole of mankind was divided into two teams- Sala's Boys, and The Others. The stakes were fantastic and every play was vital- and although he watched with a nearly obsessive interest, he was very much the fan, shouting unheard advice in a crowd of unheard advisors and knowing all the while that nobody was paying any attention to him because he was not running the team and never would be. And like all fans he was frustrated by the knowledge that the best he could do, even in a pinch, would be to run onto the field and cause some kind of illegal trouble, then be hauled off by the guards while the crowd laughed."

Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary