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Back to Journal  « News Analysis, News Omission | Hunter S Thompson (1937-2005) | Comics - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind » Hunter S Thompson (1937-2005) February 21, 2005 "The edge... there is no honest way to explain it, because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.."" The first few pages of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are cemented in my memory as some of the funniest prose I've ever read. His letter to Rolling Stone pleading for heroine money while on the '72 campaign trail is one of the few things I remember about The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in Cleveland. Damnit, I'm not strong enough to do one of these every week. Other than being one of the founders of the creative nonfiction movement in literary circles and one of the obvious influences in a lot of my favorite modern writers (hell, Warren Ellis practically carries Hunter's torch sometimes), I feel I know less about the the man than I do about the the legend. He was an impulsive guy; maybe he would have wanted it that way. "For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampeled." Filed under Journal, Peers & Peerless  
Comments: Discuss this entry at LiveJournalEllis has now written about Thompson's suicide on his mailing list and blog. Posted by: alex at February 23, 2005 2:01 PM 
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, LCRW, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, ChiZine, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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