Writer Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide

[SRHowen]

Anyone else see this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7005168/?GT1=6190

Sigh

Shawn

[Daughter of Faulkner]

This is never easy. When I worked for Ted Hughes (who was once married to Sylvia Plath) her suicide / death was always ever present with him and, of course their children.
It's just the worst thing for those left behind . . .

Thanks for posting, though.

[Daughter of Faulkner]

Ted Hughes compiled, "Birthday Letters," poems about some of his feelings of what was left behind.

[Mistook]

I wonder if we'll ever know what brought him to do it. :(

[maestrowork]

Judging from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, it's not inconceivable that Thompson has some demons of his own...

[Daughter of Faulkner]

all writers do! Yet, only a few will admit it.

Alas, on I edit....

[Coco82]

This is so sad. God Bless his family.

[johnnycannuk]

As I read on kuro5hin:

"I would love to read that suicide note"

So long Duke, we will miss you, and your attorney.

:(

Mike

[William Haskins]

rest in peace, doc. you were one of a kind and a giant in my eyes from the time i was a child.

(and daughter of faulkner, no offense to you or mr. hughes' memory, but i hope he was haunted by his callous treatment of both sylvia and assia to his dying day. he went to his grave with blood on his hands.)

-william

[Steve 211]

This is from a letter he wrote to a young fan about eight years ago...

When I was fourteen, I was a wild, half-wit punk who caused a lot of trouble and wanted to tear the world in half if for no other reason than it didn’t seem to fit me too well.

Now, looking back on it, I don’t think I’d change much of what I did in those days, but I’ve also learned at least one crucially important thing. And that’s the idea of making your own pattern, not falling into grooves that other people made.

All I’m really saying is, right, be an outlaw, but do it your own way, for your own reasons.


Thanks, Uncle Duke. You blasted open a few new passages in the literary landscape.