![]() ![]() That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary’s trip. No more of the speed that fueled the 60’s. “We are all wired into a survival trip now. Not now man. “I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.” Raoul Duke: Look, there’s two women f**king a polar bear!ĭr. We had all the momentum we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.” There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. Not in any mean or military sense we didn’t need that. ![]() There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.Īnd that, I think, was the handle-that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. “There was madness in any direction, at any hour. “Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious…”― Hunter S. But no one should be asked to handle this trip. ![]() Raoul Duke: A drug person can learn to cope with things like seeing their dead grandmother crawling up their leg with a knife in her teeth. You won’t need much, just a tiny taste.” -Dr. “As your attorney, I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my shaving kit. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.” Raoul Duke “We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. “Who are these people, these faces? Where do they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas, and sweet Jesus, there were a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a Sunday morning, still humping the American dream, that vision of the big winner somehow emerging from the last minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino.” - Raul Duke Today we present some of the most memorable quotes from the book. The book also featured Ralph Steadman’s unique illustrations which really made the drug-induced nature of the book stand out and helped capture the disjointed narrative. The book became a very famous book in the 1970’s for American readers and was a classic during that era. The book received many negative reviews from the critics due to its rambling plot and drug usage. It also captures what the US was like in the 60’s and 70’s. The book is a wild, drug fueled ride with a focus on brazen drug usage which was very unusual at the time. Hunter Thompson admitted that while he was writing the book he consumed Chivas Regal, Dunhills, cocaine, orange juice, marijuana, Heineken, huge helpings of food, LSD, Chartreuse, clove cigarettes, gin and watched many pornographic movies! The 1998 movie was produced by famed director Terry Gilliam and starred Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke and Benicio Del Toro as Dr. The novel first appeared as a 2 part series in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971 and then officially published as a novel in 1972. The book was published in 1971 and many years later the movie was released in May of 1998. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is by far his most famous book. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).American journalist Hunter S Thompson is a mythical figure, partly by his own design. Get the embed code Fear, And Loathing In Las Vegas - PHASE 2 Album Lyrics1.Are You ready to Blast Off?2.Counterattack by the Sesame Sized Bodies3.Flutter of Cherry Blossom4.Rain Inside Your Eyes5.Rave-up Tonight6.Stay as Who You Are7.Swing It!!8.Thunderclap9.Virtue and ViceFear, And Loathing In Las Vegas Lyrics provided by Shout till you are feeling hot and fall forward Let this heat break up all (the) unwillingness Let this heat break up all the upcoming sadness Let's rise up high just like those fire works ![]() Not doing anything soullessly, spending idle days So let us all have a blast and let us spend days Swing your arms hard with all that you have I was always looking towards the days comingĪre you not shooting out your lips with a shit Pulling an all nighter, saying "going to bed is aĪt no time, was time enough for me to do all Inside my drawer, there was an old photo album ![]()
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