![]() And unthought is precisely what the HST myth continues to be. ![]() So how did such a relatively minor figure become the recipient of such monumental reams of hagiography? The answer is that like other "iconic" figures - Pollock, Lennon, Kerouac - so much hip faith was invested in his countercultural status that the market could not stand an overhaul: so much was riding on the assumed verities that to take away the myth became at some point unthinkable. ![]() But in the quarter of a century since that clammy apotheosis, Thompson has increasingly traded on his totemic reputation. Watergate was like something this Thompson dreamt into existence, coming down one morning from a barking LSD high. There is one admittedly self-contained work - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, not so much his Götterdämmerung as his Huckleberry Finn - and two valuable collections of on-the-hoof journalism, in which Thompson combines moral seriousness with delirious invective, amphetamine urgency and trickster humour. ![]()
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