Posted on 02/20/2005 8:14:19 PM PST by HAL9000
AP News Alert
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) -- The son of Hunter S. Thompson says the author shot himself to death at his Aspen-area home.
-Eric
Sounds like he believed his own crap.
Your trolling of this thread is what is uncalled for. Fine, you didn't like the man. So find another thread. The thread isn't about you, it's about him.
Dorothy Parker was one very interesting girl.Perhaps understatement, as she was more-or-less the ringleader of the Algonquins.
-Eric
Do you know whether he had any other children? I am acquainted with someone who claims to be his daughter. She does look like him some and is not pretentious or a gold digger by and stretch of the imagination
Still, it would be nice to see someone truly ravaging the Left, it's pimps and pillars, especially the morally bankrupt unions.The Left takes itself so seriously these days and has so many sacred cows that the best satirists target it.
P.J. O'Rourke
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Rush Limbaugh
Emmit Tyrell
Dennis Miller
Dave Barry (most of the time)
Chris Rock (some of the time)
As for HST, he was fundamentally pro-liberty (as proven by his stand on the Second Amendment). While we're in power, we need to remember that some of the people sniping at our own side's excesses are, in the long run, on our side where big intrustive government is concerned.
-Eric
He wrote in a highly idiosyncratic, era and incident specific style. When his current population of admirers has passed on, he will be read and studied by just a few obscure specialists at the college and university level. Even then, he will be cited in footnotes with greater far frequency than as main text. In the year 2040 and possibly much sooner, "Who was Hunter S. Thompson?" will be the Jeopardy answer that no one will know.Everything you say about his style could also have been said about Hemingway (who also killed himself).
-Eric
Yair?
What took him so long?
Yair?
What took him so long?
I'd honor him with a whiff of Ether but it's a little early in the day.
Sorry to dismiss him as another drug case, but he did it to himself, didn't he?I have a gut feeling there was more to it. He was the type who, if he had some fatal disease, would say nothing and then do this rather than let the disease run its course.
-Eric
(Astonished, speechless Smiley.)
Hemingway, the person not (at least not most times) the writer, was an obnoxious boor. Especially in his later years. Read the famous New Yorker Profile of his visit to Manhattan.
Read also in one of his bios about his treatment of the Gerald Murphys, especially what he wrote about them after their two young sons died.
I find boors boring but I guess that's just me.
Hemmingway was a selfish vindictive bas#ard. That diddy he wrote about Martha Gellhorn was a classic of spite.
I don't think suicide bring peace in the afterlife. It's the ultimate selfish act.
By whom, exactly?
I hope by his family.
In 100 years, no one will have heard of him or read his books.
Maybe he just looked back upon his life and asked, "Is that all there is?"
Sad. Very sad.
I don't think so. Maybe the ultimate desperate act, however.
Many of his short stories are exquisite and timeless. "Big Two-Hearted River" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," to cite just two examples, are bereft of tedious topical and political content and are equal to anything that Yeats, Joyce, or Dostoevsky wrote. They are great art that can be enjoyed as great art for the great care that Hemingway invested in them.
Thompson was a manic, self-indulgent, incautious scribbler who could write some very funny and startlingly original lines. But even at his best he didn't approach the minor genius of, say, Ring Lardner.
That's my opinion, of course.
I actually thought about this movie last night after seeing a convertible car on tv. I may have to pop in the DVD later on today.
Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
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