March 1, 2005
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3/16 Continued
The New Yorker, issue dated March 7, 2005, on Hunter S. Thompson:
“… his true model and hero was F. Scott Fitzgerald. He used to type out
pages from ‘The Great Gatsby,’ just to get the feeling, he said, of
what it was like to write that way, and Fitzgerald’s novel was
continually on his mind while he was working on ‘Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas,’ which was published, after a prolonged and agonizing
compositional nightmare, in 1972. That book was supposed to be called
‘The Death of the American Dream,’ a portentous age-of-Aquarius cliché
that won Thompson a nice advance but that he naturally came to
consider, as he sat wretchedly before his typewriter night after night,
a millstone around his neck.”
Random Thoughts
for St. Patrick’s Eveby Steven H. Cullinane
on March 16, 2001“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
– Daisy Buchanan in Chapter I of The Great Gatsby“Thanks for the tip, American Dream.”
– Spider-Girl, in Vol. 1, No. 30, March 2001
