February 22, 2005
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A Shot at Redemption
Hunter S. Thompson, photos
from The New York Times
Excerpt from Fritz Leiber’s
“Damnation
Morning,” 1959:“Time traveling, which is not quite the good clean boyish fun
it’s cracked up to be, started for me when this woman with the sigil on
her forehead looked in on me from the open doorway of the hotel bedroom
where I’d hidden myself and the bottles and asked me, ‘Look, Buster, do
you want to live?’”“I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard.”
