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johnwilkestooth:

Sometimes when I read Hunter S. Thompson I begin to think he may have been a man of pure genius wherein all of his seemingly superfluous asides about drugs or cars or sports or extraneous nonsense are actually part of an elaborate metaphor describing the actual events, story, or meaning of the main text of whatever he’s writing about.  If that’s true it makes Gonzo an actual force of literary magnificence instead of simply a cool subjective way to view the world by someone with a keen eye.

I’m not sure how much I agree with it but sometimes in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 he just goes off about things like his car breaking down or picking up hitchhikers and it all comes around to relate back almost directly to the main text of the primary election cycle in an almost too perfect way.