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[katallison]

HST's suicide leaves me feeling gut-punched. Oddly, not really *surprised*--I never saw him expiring peacefully in bed, or anything. But shocked, and kind of old and emptied out, and deeply sad.

Comments

[saffronhouse.livejournal.com]

Yes.

All of that.

[vagabondage.livejournal.com]

True, I wasn't surprised at all, just sad. February kills, that's all there is to it.

[luminosity]

Me too. Me too.

[aerye.livejournal.com]

I know. It's like the rebels are slipping away from me, like I'm losing touch with something wild and free and brave. Like the world has become too toxic for my heroes, and something important, damn it is slipping through our fingers and we need to wake up, we need to do something about it.

Just damn and ouch.

Rambling grief

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong of me to keep hoping that it was a crazy-ass accident?--I mean, god knows HST used to fire his fucking guns in the house, so yeah, I'm not surprised that he'd off himself (talk about wildly dangerous ways--hell, firing guns or riding motorcyles or OD or whatever)--but what's upsetting me is the idea that me might have done it deliberately. Even so, there's now rumors that he might have done it for health related reasons-he was, apparently, occasionally using a wheelchair--and that makes me feel better, too. What scared the fuck out of me is that he might have actually have taken a cold, hard look around at our decent into facism and said, "Fuck it," as the only rational/ethical decision. That's what's keeping me up at nights. And also, if we are actually descending into fascism, I don't want to go alone, how am I going to go there without HST and people like him by my side? Plus, how will I live without his sentences? HST is a guy I would have fucked for the sexiness of his syntax alone.

Sigh.

Hunter S. Thompson

[bimo.livejournal.com]

Due to the transatlantic gap, I didn't realize any of HST's relevance until one of our weekly news magazines featured an obituary. (translate: just another proof of what a poor excuse for a cultural scientist I am *g*)

I would love to read some of his work, but have absolutely no idea where to start. Is there anything you would recommend?