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HST killed himself. The Globe & Mail ran a piece from the AP here: Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide. The lead:
Aspen, Colo. -- Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.I loved most of the Thompson stuff and own hardback volumes of most of his works. And, I could never figure out whether he was insanely bright and putting on a show . . . or just insane.
I hoped it was the former but believed it to be the latter, and so this was not merely expected but probably overdue. How sad. He stirred it up and that is an enduring quality that will be sadly missed.
Posted by Grayson at February 21, 2005 07:48 AM