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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

a Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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"As far as you and the Mint people know, I am still up there in 1850 - legally and spiritually if not in the actual flesh - with a 'Do Not Disturb' sign hung to ward off disturbance. The maids won't come near that room as long as that sign…
[Thompson's] writing sits at the crossroads of fantastical delusion, and uncompromised genius. http://www.penhead.org/
[FEAR AND LOATHING] chronicles how many elicit drugs a man can pump into his system and still function . . . http://www.penhead.org/
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila,…
You can turn your back on a person, but, never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and…