Hunter S. Thompson: "Having a favorite baseball team is like having a favorite oil company." On Govt LSD: "Your attributing too much strength and mystery to the enemy." HST on Kesey: "Ken Kesey said to me sometime around 1967 that he was never going to write again, he thought it was a bad way to communicate... it looks like he carried out his threat." But he goes on to say that "very few writers have ever produced two books as good as cuckoo and notion."
Tim Russert interrogates a broken and shattered man on his death bed for his lack of patriotism on the eve of war. but even in his broken and shattered state, HST manages to assert that Collin Powell was full of shit and that "this is a war that we will be bogged down in for a generation."
John Cusack remembers HST.
Its rather remarkable that there is no biography of Kesey. A social biography of this fascinating, heroic figure could be a tremendous entree into some of the most important developments of our time. Sometimes I think I am just passing through academia, and writing that biography is my true calling.
Kesey's last words were an essay in Rolling Stone calling for peace in aftermath of 911. He died on Nov 10, 2001. Obit in the Independent, and NYT Obit
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