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

[alice wellintown]

Like others who were never a fan and never dared to dream that he
would end the so-called wars, but still believed the Nobel folks had
acted with grace and wisdom, I was struck by our current president's
list of leaders he intends to follow the example of; not those men who
stood up to violence and oppression and were tossed in jail for
resisting racism and genocide, but the Pope, Nixon and Reagan. Complex
and interesting men; easy to critique or even hate, but not so easy to
understand. It's the easy part that appeals to authors like Pynchon.
Nixon makes a great cartoon.

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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...
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> Pynchon, Coover, Roth, Thompson, others I'm sure I don't know of.....so many American writers so loathed that man.................
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