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  • Mercury and the Dream

    Mercury and the Dream

    “Jesus! Did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?” Page 19.
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Thompson, Hunter S. NY: Random House, 1972. The last two times I’ve reread that great American classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I used a library edition.
    Please support public libraries.
    EmailIt’s one of the few books that I’ve got in paperback, as well, along with various other titles by the same author, but that paperback is an older one with yellowed pages, a larger facsimile edition of the first, replete with the Ralph Steadman pen and ink artwork rendered in glorious black and white. What attracted the first time was the tale itself, and what I later dug into to discover, the layers upon layers of wit, satire, possibly truth masquerading as an improbable adventure of epic proportions.
    “Jesus! Did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?” Page 19.
    When Mercury is retrograde, I’ve found a certain calm in diving back into old texts and rereading the material, turning up new nugget sets, bits and pieces, stylings, and other improbable interludes that deserve recognition.

    the Portable Mercury Retrograde

    Portable Mercury Retrograde
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