![]() ![]() Clip your words!"Ī glass of Wild Turkey and ice was placed in front of me - for elocution purposes, of course - and the reading proceeded, this time with the benefit of Thompson's coaching.Įarlier that day I'd stopped at the Woody Creek Tavern, in Woody Creek, Colorado, to order a drink and steady my nerves before heading up the hill to the house of the Gonzo Journalist and self-proclaimed King of Fun. ![]() The author insisted it be read aloud to capture the right effect, and apparently I hadn't been reading with proper and resounding emphasis. Nixon, "He Was a Crook" ( Rolling Stone, June 16, 1994), an obituary fired off in a burst of rage. I'd been directed to read aloud Thompson's farewell to Richard M. Thompson's kitchen conducting an interview and he wants you to drink. ![]() What would you do? You're sitting in Hunter S. This is the artist's way of scribbling 'Kilroy was here' on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass." - William Faulkner, interview with Paris Review, 1956 "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ![]() Atlantic Unbound - Interview with Hunter S. ![]()
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