more on Nixon, "a brute in need of extermination"---Hunter S. Thompson

[Mark Kohut]

One major, and more than two, of our good-reading plisters have pointed to
Thompson's Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas in re Inherent Vice, specifically the Las Vegas section.

In some of Hunter S.'s letters, I am reminded of how much he loathed Nixon, as Pynchon did,  most public in "Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72" which stemmed from an interview Hunter did early in the campaign, having written Nixon off as a tired loser set to lose again but instead with his V signs and football metaphors finding him more energetically bright than he expected and therefore much more dangerous than he had feared.....expressed in a letter in the phrase above...

Pynchon, Coover, Roth, Thompson, others I'm sure I don't know of.....so many American writers so loathed that man.................