Really, do any of us?
"his work will be forgotten."
Probably rite.
"Ask almost anyone today about Hunter Thompson and he will have no idea who you are talking about."
Like me. Who is this guy they keep mentioning every day since, on some news outlet? I don't even know what the !%#@ "Gonzo" is.....
His work will be forgotten.
We're not going to tell you about the Manta bats,
you wouldn't see them anyway.
One thing about Hunter, he wasn't like the others.
Really, do any of us?
Same here. I never heard of the guy, and I keep wondering about this "Gonzo" stuff they're all talking about. I looked up gonzo, and it apparently just means unconventional or exaggerated. Whatever.
If you don't know who Thompson was, you are missing. . . . absolutely nothing. Clamor without content, as I read somewhere else, best describes his "work."
Probably rite.
Probably wrong, actually. He, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, Susan Orlean, Joseph Mitchell, and a handful of extremely talented writers throughout the late 1960s-early 1970s changed the way we look at long-form non-fiction to this very day.
It means to use a personal, highly eccentric style in journalism; in the broader sense, it just means bizarre. The word wasn't used much until Hunter Thompson started using it, and Jerry Jeff Walker named his backup band the "Lost Gonzo Band."
After that was the muppet named Gonzo, but I'd almost forgotten the term. It seems very quaint and dated, now.