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Thompson, if he is to be believed, has sampled the entire rainbow of
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legal and illegal drugs in heroic efforts to feel better than he does.
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As for the truth about his health: I have asked around about it. I
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am told that he appears to be strong and rosy, and steadily sane. But we
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will be doing what he wants us to do, I think, if we consider his exterior
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a sort of Dorian Gray facade. Inwardly, he is being eaten alive by tinhorn
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politicians.
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The disease is fatal. There is no known cure. The most we can do
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for the poor devil, it seems to me, is to name his disease in his honor.
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From this moment on, let all those who feel that Americans can be as easily
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led to beauty as to ugliness, to truth as to public relations, to joy as to
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bitterness, be said to be suffering from Hunter Thompson's disease. I don't
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have it this morning. It comes and goes. This morning I don't have Hunter
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Thompson's disease.
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-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., on Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Excerpt
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from "A Political Disease", Vonnegut's review of "Fear and
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Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72"
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