Strong Letter to Follow
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
No explanation? I’m sorry, I don”t understand.
Burgess? Author of “A Clockwork Orange”? Hunter Thompson I’ve heard about. I know of him in the vaguest way. A leftist writer who committed suicide with a shotgun. A selfish death that leave untold nightmares to those that found him and had to clean it up. Not a fan.
Lighten up JFK. The letter stands by itself rather like Repin’s Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks
Burgess owed Rolling Stone a “think-piece.” He tried to weasel out of it by instead offering to submit a 50,000 word novella about the “condition humane.”
Thompson would have none of it.
To truly get the tone of the letter, imagine R. Lee Ermey shouting it in Vincent D’Onofrio’s face.
As a formerly foul mouth, hard drinking, womanizing nuclear submarine sailor, I truly admire and hold in highest esteem the reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Muslim Sultan. Oh my! I haven’t heard that kind of language in all its splendor since 2007 when I left my last commercial nuke plant to work at a nuclear steam supply company. Most appropriate reply!
Lighten up?
“Nuts!” To that.
Hunter Thompson’s drug/alcohol crazed mind was not admirable but very entertaining. Generally, he took no prisoners. Fresh air.
In his personal life Thompson served only as a negative example, but in his writing he was unforgettable.
Doonesbury’s Uncle Duke patterned on Hunter Thompson whose nomme de plume was Raoul Duke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Duke