RIP HST

Post #195,879 by Ashton 2/22/05 2:02:29 AM Reply	RIP HST A passage from his last book, Kingdon of Fear. Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child of the Final Days of the American Century . . . ... And, in Colorado, the County Coroner is the only public official with the power to arrest the sheriff. That is the key to my oft uttered wisdom in re: Politics is the art of controlling your environment. Indeed. Never forget it, or you will become a Victim of your environment. Rich nerds and lawyers will stomp all over you worse than any A-rab, and you will be like the eight-ball on some country-club billiards table near Atlanta -- whack, over and out. No more humor. And so much for that, eh? Jews don't play pool anywy, and neither do A-rabs. They are tribal people, which means they are primitive thinkers. They feel a genetic imperative to kill each other, and it tends to get in their way. . . . Or maybe that brutal compulsion comes from the Holy Bible, which is definitely true. The Bible is unforgiving. There is not a scintilla of mercy or humor in the Holy Bible. None. Think on it, Bubba. Point me to some laughs, or even a goddamn chuckle in that book. People frequently ask me if I believe in God, as if it were some kind of final judgment or naked indicator of my pro or con value in this world. Ho ho. This is too stupid to even think about -- like a WHITES ONLY sign on the pearly gates of Heaven. But not really. Don't get me wrong, fellas. That is only a whooped-up "figure of speech" or maybe a failed metphor. It is a term of Art, not a term of Law. If the freak who wrote the Book of Revelation had been busted and jailed for the horrible threats he made against the whole human race, he would have been executed on the spot by a Military Tribunal. So long, Johnny, we never really liked you anyway. Mahalo. \ufffdQuien sabe? Perhaps the prospect of watching the reruns of the Rapturin Out folks, orchestrated by the nukular Prez .. was as toxic as that medical death sentence; I mean.. who among us can fathom the effects upon a writer, of the now certain prospect of Another Four Years of language murder by a smirking chimp (+ the bathos of hand-wringing Left Their Behinds folk) B-o-o-r-i-n-g perhaps unto death?
Post #195,888 by pwhysall 2/22/05 3:20:13 AM Reply	While I like HST's work... ...I think he has a uniquely American perspective. I find it difficult to relate to some of the cultural and sociopolitical mores that he describes, because I've only ever seen them on TV, read about them in a book, or seen them on the silver screen. This means that my enjoyment of a lot of his work is in a rather abstract sense, rather than engaging with the text, like I can with (say) Nick Hornby or even Iain Banks. I think that the American all-or-nothing (at least, it seems that way; but then, empty vessels make the most noise, etc; I'm talking about what I can see and hear) approach to religion is something particularly alien. I suspect that it's this culture of hell-fire Baptist and primitive Methodist teaching that provoked his ire. 100% on-target on the rich folk, though. Rich is as rich does, be it over here or over there. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #195,898 by Ashton 2/22/05 5:49:54 AM Reply	..think it's hard for you I live here, and - most of the traditions have never made much sense, well.. after age ~12. I guess I've wondered too, if he travels well - a lot of his hyperbole is coded in local labels, so I see what you mean. I think it's fair to call him a Muckraker in the mold of Mencken, but by whatever name, he clearly had the nose for the multiforms of hypocrisy; was the nemesis of the Murican fondness for euphemisms. Undoubtedly on every Tee Vee preacher's List. That's enough for me to salute.
Post #195,978 by dmcarls 2/22/05 3:48:48 PM Reply	Hunter S. Thompson on Richard Nixon The Rude Pundit was kind enough to link to this.... HE WAS A CROOK by Hunter S. Thompson [link\|http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2002/12/36930.shtml\|http://portland.indy...02/12/36930.shtml]
Post #196,058 by ChrisR 2/23/05 8:38:50 AM Reply	HST on GWB To say this goofy child president is looking more and more like Richard Nixon in the summer of 1974 would be a flagrant insult to Nixon. [link\|http://www.hempfarm.org/Papers/Kingdom_of_Fear.html\|Kingdom Of Fear]

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