Good read, plus a video link:
Thompson was stalked by doom
but his writing was beacon of truth
By Henry Allen
The Washington Post
Updated: 11:47 a.m. ET Feb. 22, 2005
From Hunter S. Thompson’s “Songs of the Doomed — More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”:
“It has been raining a lot recently. Quick thunderstorms and flash floods ... lightning at night and fear in the afternoon. People are worried about electricity.
“Nobody feels safe. Fires burst out on dry hillsides, raging out of control, while dope fiends dance in the rancid smoke and animals gnaw each other. Foreigners are everywhere, carrying pistols and bags of money. There are rumors about murder and treachery and women with no pulse. Crime is rampant and even children are losing their will to live.
“The phones go dead and power lines collapse, whole families plunged into darkness with no warning at all. People who used to be in charge walk around wall-eyed, with their hair standing straight up on end, looking like they work for Don King, and babbling distractedly about their hearts humming like stun guns and trying to leap out of their bodies like animals trapped in bags.”
He wrote this in Washington, in 1989.
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