On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:07:23 -0500, "Wolfgang" wrote:


"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote



Take Hunter S. Thompson, for example. Clearly, he did not WANT to be
Hunter S. Thompson......and who can blame him?

i think that is true. he was captured by himself.

No, he not only wanted to be the Doc, he rolled around in it like a pig
in warm mud. And as an aside, as I've said before, the Doc ain't Raoul,
and Raoul ain't the Doc...

The occupational hazard of the solipsist. The list of possible candidates
to be held responsible for the fact that one is an ass.....an asshole....or
whatever is quickly exhausted, leaving only one clear choice.

Well, they say that the first step in getting help is admitting you have
a problem...and since your choices are exhausted, maybe now you can seek
that help more fully.

the movie made the horror of his life, and his fear of it, obvious.

"The movie?" Regardless of the one to which you refer - no.

I haven't seen it myself. I suspect (based on the little of his work I've
read) that the horror was obvious to Thompson long before.

still, reading his stuff, i am impressed with his perception.

I'll concede perception on the basis of your testimony, but perception alone
isn't worth all that much to anyone else.

****, the Doc pretty much enjoyed being the Doc, but like most, his mind
wasn't quite as free as he hoped or wished, hence the
personally-ingested drugs, either actual or literary.


Dicklet, on the other hand,
DOES........and who can blame him?

Er, no - exactly bass ackwards - I don't want to the Doc, the Doc wanted
to be "me" - not _me_ in the specific, "me" in general.

well, ****, i don't know... we are all mostly soup sandwiches.

No, sorry, we aren't...and your feeling that "we" are is sad, gonzo, and
well, puzzling...at least on the face of it...

Ain't it the truth.

See above, at least the first part...

Nevertheless, I like to think that if I loathed myself
so much that I desperately wanted to be someone else, I would be able to
find a model who didn't loathe himself so much that he'd rather be dead. If
not.......well, one can at least save time by cutting out the middle man.


Ah, yes, the perception and perspective of a common man with a cheap
education...IOW, wrong. I, for one, don't wish or want to be anyone
else, and if anything, most wish and want to be "me" - again, in the
general rather than specific.

Wolfgang
who is busy enough being the center of himself, thank you very much......the
universe can find its own.

Uh-huh...right...such a serious, busily-self-centered lil' pup...

Eleven-and-a-half-Eagles...Dick