An Appreciation: The Thompson Style: A Sense of Self, and Outrage: "Hunter S. Thompson died on Sunday, alone with a gun in his kitchen in Woody Creek, Colo. In doing so, he added heft to a legend that came to obscure his gifts as one of journalism's most influential practitioners."
So passes a great and terribly energetic and crazy writer, heir apparent to Kerouac and Hemingway. I only first encountered the man a scant year ago myself, and like Elliot Smith, the tragedy of life on the edge--deeply in touch with that human heart of darkness--has seized another.
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