Thompson on stress
An old passage I’ve always liked, now here for posterity:
Once they let you get away with running around for ten years like a king hoodlum, you tend to forget now and then that about half the people you meet live from one day to the next in a state of such fear and uncertainty that about half the time they honestly doubt their own sanity. These are not the kind of people who really need to get hung up on depressing political trips. They are not ready for it. Their boats are rocking so badly that all they want to do is get level long enough to think straight and avoid the next nightmare.
—Hunter S Thompson (Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72)
February 16th, 2012 at 3:26 am
One of my favourites the true land of the outlaw, and a tribute to the genius of how Thompson wrote so grandiloquently.