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The dude was totally over the top, the craziest stuff came out of him. But thats the way of the real artists. I didn't agree with over half the stuff he said, but he created his own unique, effective, and impossible to dismiss style to present it and that's damn hard to do.

There are a gazillion artists who pretend to be something special. We see them lauded every day when in fact they are not doing, and have never, done anything original. That is not the case with Hunter S. Thompson.

There are probably about two people on this forum that agreed with this guy's philosophy. I am not one of them. But I can tell you, this was a real artist, and you can't really fault those for being crazy. A real artist is a rare thing, and I'm sorry that he's taken the off ramp that so many of the real ones do.