Saturday, September 1, 2007

the hands-down funniest part of fear and loathing is when duke throws the grapefruit into the tub as "white rabbit" climaxes, and the lawyer starts flipping out thinking he's been electrocuted...

the second funniest part is when the lawyer starts screaming at the people in the car trying to sell them drugs, and they ignore him nervously and then finally just start yelling and try to race duke and his lawyer and duke speculates that they probably got a speeding ticket.

"Hey honkies!" my attorney screamed. "Goddamit, I'm serious! I want to sell you some pure fuckin' smack!" He was leaning out of the car, very close to them. But sitll nobody answered. I glanced over, very briefly, and saw four middle-American faces frozen with shock, staring straight ahead.

We were in the middle lane. A quick left turn would be illegal. We would have to go straight ahead when the light changed, then escape at the next corner. I waited, tapping the accelerator nervously...

My attorney was losing control: "Cheap heroin!" he was shouting. "This is the real stuff! You won't get hooked! Goddamit, I know what I have here!" He whacked on the side of the car, as if to get their attention...but they wanted no part of us.

"You folks never talked to a vet before?" said my attorney. "I just got back from Veet Nam. This is scag, folks! Pure scag!"

Suddenly the light changed and the Ford bolted off like a rocket. I stomped on the accelerator and stayed right next to them for about two hundred yards, watching for cops in the mirror while my attorney kept screaming at them: "Shoot! Fuck! Scag! Blood! Heroin! Rape! Cheap! Communist! Jab it right into your fucking eyeballs!"
p 151-152


I'm also quite enamored of the way they keep talking about taking the hormones directly out of someone's glands and ingesting them...the thyroid gland? can't quite remember the name of it. what a fucking weird idea.

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