There are many great openers in literature, but few to rival “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the hormones began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive....""
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Elizabeth Nelson
Over at my substack Please Take My Advice, I wrote at length about the deep core of melancholy which runs through the antic truths and devastating horrors of Hunter S. Thompson’s ‘Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas.’ Always my guy, but ended up a caricature. theparanoidstyle.substack.com/p/the-enduri...
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"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....""
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the hormones began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit heavy-chested; maybe you should drive...."" 🤭