IVIV (14): North Las Vegas

[rich]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> The notion of the northern end of Las Vegas being the avenue of dashed
> dreams has a famous literary source:
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>        About thirty minutes after our brush with Okies we pulled into an
>        all-night diner on the Tonopah highway, on the outskirts of a
>        mean/scag ghetto called "North Las Vegas." Which is actually
>        outside the city limits of Vegas proper. North Vegas is where
>        you go when you've fucked up once too often on the Strip, and
>        when you've not even welcome in the cut-rate downtown places
>        around Casino Center.
>        Hunter S. Thompson: "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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> If there is a touchstone for the Las Vegas episodes, it would be Hunter S.
> Thompson's best known work. There are echos of "F 'n L" throughout Inherent
> Vice, particularly "Stoned" as a 24/7 activity and the dashing of the dreams
> of "Freak Power."
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building upon the musings of Puck's murder and the jarring quality of
same, the above now reminds me of the behavior of Dr Gonzo with the
waitress at that sleazy diner in North Las Vegas--there's lots of
goofball antics by these guys which are funny but the hovering hint of
murderous violence (which is very well depicted in the F&L movie, too)
by this Doc is very clear and very unsettling. or so it seems to me

rich
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