Reality has finally caught up with Hunter S Thompson
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Tue, 2003-01-14 01:00.
Reflections on a World Gone Gonzo, From an Expert
Reality has finally caught up with Hunter S. Thompson’s ravings. In "Kingdom of Fear" he writes, "We have Anthrax, we have smallpox, we have very real fears of being blasted into jelly in the privacy of our own homes by bombs from an unseen enemy, or by nerve gas sprayed into our drinking water, or even ripped apart with no warning by our neighbor’s Rottweiler dogs." When the Gonzo Granddad was in his prime, these were the kinds of things he liked to make up….
(NYT Books)