On Literary Figures: Hunter S. Thompson

“All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy peace and understanding for three buck a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create… a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody……