“Jesus, I thought. We've raised a generation of stone desperate cripples...
The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era—but nobody guessed, back then, that the experiment might churn up this kind of a hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.”
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
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Hunter always finds his way into my personal roll of Mighty Dead.
More my spiritual father than my own mentor, to be honest.
I think I'll drink to his memory.
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