Hunter S. Thompson's Daily Routine..
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OfficerStupidity
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Lightweight.
daannnnieel
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IanAvery-Leaf
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I saw that on Reddit yesterday and its fake...
baethoven
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I was curious as to the validity of it as well, but the dude on Reddit (I looked it up upon your comment, the OP is from my FB feed) doesn't really support his claims of it being fake with fact. It's mostly just his opinion. Who knows? I just found it interesting haha.
REDDIT RESPONSE
"alright im sorry to be that guy, but this is simply not true. this comes from E. Jean Carroll who imo wrote the worst of HST biographies of all time. while hunter totally refused to speak with her she just spoke to associates, friends and acquaintances. and while she was not getting the stuff she was looking for she nvented a hunter who never existed. someone bigger then life who could deliver the stories she was looking for. but nothing of that stuff is true.i was a long time reader of anita thompson owl farm blog. this entry reminded me, after a long time, to check it out again. sadly i couldnt find it. (im tired and lazy and did a half assed google search only). but that blog was truly great for every fan of hunter.
she would speak very hornestly about him and released small bits of his text, or would hint out great articles or passages of his books. some of the text bits were even unreleased i think.
she also answered a lot of the most frequented questions and one of them ofc was: how high was he during his writing?
and as far as i can recall she said he never wrote high. he sometimes tried. ( and there are hilarious pieces of text about him, writing on mescaline, where he was suprised how well he could spell stuff. all that was on the blog) sometimes he would write high, especially in the early years, but he had to put to much work in it, the day after, because most of the time it was pure horseshit. anita thompson said, he worte his best stuff in the last years of his life and everything was written completly sober.
while he still was a notorious drugfiend and an addict in the time between the deadlines. but also that he had that image pressed onto him if he wanted it or not. he also had sometimes the feeling he had to life up to that image. he was a strange man for sure, but i believe he was so so much more than just the raging addict.
and in all seriousness, its also nothing funny. i joked and glorified his behavior too in my younger years. later i made my own experiences. and years later you will look back and understand that, while its fun at the time, you lose something you will never get back. losing this naivety and gaining this new carving never known before is something most dont speak about. sure you can control and suppress it. but it will never go away again."
REDDIT RESPONSE
"alright im sorry to be that guy, but this is simply not true. this comes from E. Jean Carroll who imo wrote the worst of HST biographies of all time. while hunter totally refused to speak with her she just spoke to associates, friends and acquaintances. and while she was not getting the stuff she was looking for she nvented a hunter who never existed. someone bigger then life who could deliver the stories she was looking for. but nothing of that stuff is true.i was a long time reader of anita thompson owl farm blog. this entry reminded me, after a long time, to check it out again. sadly i couldnt find it. (im tired and lazy and did a half assed google search only). but that blog was truly great for every fan of hunter.
she would speak very hornestly about him and released small bits of his text, or would hint out great articles or passages of his books. some of the text bits were even unreleased i think.
she also answered a lot of the most frequented questions and one of them ofc was: how high was he during his writing?
and as far as i can recall she said he never wrote high. he sometimes tried. ( and there are hilarious pieces of text about him, writing on mescaline, where he was suprised how well he could spell stuff. all that was on the blog) sometimes he would write high, especially in the early years, but he had to put to much work in it, the day after, because most of the time it was pure horseshit. anita thompson said, he worte his best stuff in the last years of his life and everything was written completly sober.
while he still was a notorious drugfiend and an addict in the time between the deadlines. but also that he had that image pressed onto him if he wanted it or not. he also had sometimes the feeling he had to life up to that image. he was a strange man for sure, but i believe he was so so much more than just the raging addict.
and in all seriousness, its also nothing funny. i joked and glorified his behavior too in my younger years. later i made my own experiences. and years later you will look back and understand that, while its fun at the time, you lose something you will never get back. losing this naivety and gaining this new carving never known before is something most dont speak about. sure you can control and suppress it. but it will never go away again."
panojibber.
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Hahahaha "Midnight - Hunter ready to write"
forrest-cole
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10pm - drops acid
11 30pm- cocaine
Midnight- Hunter ready to write
bahahahaha
winning
11 30pm- cocaine
Midnight- Hunter ready to write
bahahahaha
winning
accualyisdolan
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Fear and loathing is where it's at
Ryan.Street
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Of course after he smokes grass to take the edge off he goes and gets a cheeseburger.
spliff.Life
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yes, I bet that schedule of his day could have been true for a few occasions but most definitely not everyday
panojibber.
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Jack Kerouac:
Wrote On the Road in a three-week-long benzedrine binge on a single 120 foot long scroll. The original manuscript is more or less a single paragraph. Crazy fucker.
Wrote On the Road in a three-week-long benzedrine binge on a single 120 foot long scroll. The original manuscript is more or less a single paragraph. Crazy fucker.
brizz
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for the HTS throng who hasn't read the short story fear and loathing in Elko.http://www.preterhuman.net/texts/politics/elko
baethoven
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Trust me I know, I've read damn near everything he's written haha. Neil Cassady was really the crazy fucker in On The Road. He's who Dean Moriarty's character is based off of if you've read the book.
He's also drove the Merry Pranksters around back on their cross country acid trips. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test documents that era fairly well, check it out if you're into that sort of thing ha.
He's also drove the Merry Pranksters around back on their cross country acid trips. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test documents that era fairly well, check it out if you're into that sort of thing ha.
panojibber.
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I've never even heard of that book before, definitely going to read it though haha. Sounds awesome.
spliff.Life
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this guy knows, im also a kerouac fan and have read most of his stuff, knowing his lifestyle makes it surprising how much writing he actually has
to anyone who would like to learn more about this sort of thing,
On The Road, Visions of Cody, Dharma Bums-JK
The Electric Kool-aid acid test-tom wolfe
Howl-Allen Ginsberg
Junky-William Burrows
even one flew over the cuckoos nest as its writer ken kesey is the main character in the electricKAAT gave me a lot of insight to Kesey as a person
to anyone who would like to learn more about this sort of thing,
On The Road, Visions of Cody, Dharma Bums-JK
The Electric Kool-aid acid test-tom wolfe
Howl-Allen Ginsberg
Junky-William Burrows
even one flew over the cuckoos nest as its writer ken kesey is the main character in the electricKAAT gave me a lot of insight to Kesey as a person
Skavengers303
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also add HST's Hells angels, only because Hunter was at the same Hell's angels party in electric kool aid acid test and includes it in his book, so you get to pretty much reread that chapter but from another point of view
and lonesome traveler-JK
and lonesome traveler-JK
panojibber.
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I've read dharma bums, and I have a copy of Ginsberg's book that Howl was in.Just put Electric-Kool-Aid-Acid-Test on hold at the library, pretty stoked to read it.
+Karma for all you people reading good literature.
+Karma for all you people reading good literature.
yeah. definitely not true. would be shocked if it was even anywhere close. which isn't to say he didn't do lots of coke and drink a lot, because he probably did, but it's more or less a myth that writers work drunk or high.
from wikipedia:
"Thompson often used a blend of fiction and fact when portraying himself in his writing as well, sometimes using the name Raoul Duke as an author surrogate whom he generally described as a callous, erratic, self-destructive journalist who constantly drank alcohol and took hallucinogenic drugs. Fantasizing about causing bodily harm to others was also a characteristic in his work used to comedic effect and an example of his brand of humor.
A number of critics have commented that as he grew older the line that distinguished Thompson from his literary self became increasingly blurred.[51][52][53]Thompson himself admitted during a 1978 BBC interview that he sometimes felt pressured to live up to the fictional self that he had created, adding "I'm never sure which one people expect me to be. Very often, they conflict — most often, as a matter of fact. ...I'm leading a normal life and right along side me there is this myth, and it is growing and mushrooming and getting more and more warped. When I get invited to, say, speak at universities, I'm not sure if they are inviting Duke or Thompson. I'm not sure who to be."[54]
from wikipedia:
"Thompson often used a blend of fiction and fact when portraying himself in his writing as well, sometimes using the name Raoul Duke as an author surrogate whom he generally described as a callous, erratic, self-destructive journalist who constantly drank alcohol and took hallucinogenic drugs. Fantasizing about causing bodily harm to others was also a characteristic in his work used to comedic effect and an example of his brand of humor.
A number of critics have commented that as he grew older the line that distinguished Thompson from his literary self became increasingly blurred.[51][52][53]Thompson himself admitted during a 1978 BBC interview that he sometimes felt pressured to live up to the fictional self that he had created, adding "I'm never sure which one people expect me to be. Very often, they conflict — most often, as a matter of fact. ...I'm leading a normal life and right along side me there is this myth, and it is growing and mushrooming and getting more and more warped. When I get invited to, say, speak at universities, I'm not sure if they are inviting Duke or Thompson. I'm not sure who to be."[54]