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The man said it so eloquently…………
“As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says ‘you are nothing’, I will be a writer.”
That’s a quote I haven’t seen. Well, he got there. God, I miss him.
Doonsbury.
( 1976?) He came to my college once to sit in on a class with our creative writing teacher, Charles Gaines, a friend of his. Gaines wrote Pumping Iron and Stay Hungry, among other books and essays. When Gaines left, Russell Banks took his place.It was the only good thing about my school-that and the student newspaper. Anyway, I digress, because want I remember most about Thompson want that he kept reaching into the top of his sock where he stashed his pills, periodically popping capsules and tablets into his mouth swallowing them without water.
Funny memory to have.
That’s hilarious–and how lucky you were. Was he coherent? Did he say anything memorable? You had great creative writing courses, I’ll bet.
One of his sayings has been my mantra for many years: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Oddly, it works.
It sure worked for HIM!
What a character he was. There’s no one quite like him out there anymore.
No, and we’re the worse for it, I think. Although he’s probably the better!