[link|http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3690414|The Economist]:

Assigned to cover the Kentucky Derby in 1970, his mind was too blown with drugs, as usual, to write the story. One by one, with his trembling hands, he ripped the pages of whiskey-fuelled ramblings out of his notebook and sent them to the printer. The piece that resulted, \ufffdThe Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved\ufffd, was a runaway success, though he had neither described the race nor mentioned the winner. And he was astonished: it was like \ufffdfalling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool of mermaids.\ufffd


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Cheers,
Scott.