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"The only other important thing to be said about FEAR & LOATHING at this time is that it was fun to write, and that’s rare-for me, at least, because I’ve always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it’s a bit like fucking -which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don’t do much giggling. Nothing is fun when you have to do it-over and over, again and again-or else you’ll be evicted, and that gets old. So it’s a rare goddamn trip for a locked-in, rent-paying writer to get into a gig that, even in retrospect, was a kinghell, highlife fucking from start to finish… and then to actually get paid for writing this kind of manic gibberish seems genuinely weird; like getting paid for kicking Agnew in the balls. So maybe there’s hope. Or maybe I’m going mad…. In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile-and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely…. The Swine are gearing down for a serious workout this time around…. So much, then, for The Road-and for the last possibilities of running amok in Las Vegas… Well, at least, I’ll know I was there, neck deep in the madness, before the deal went down, and I got so high and wild that I felt like a two-ton Manta ray jumping all the way across the Bay of Bengal."
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson