Hunter S. Thompson was a politician who traveled all over the world, seeing how things were run in other countries and bringing back some of those ethics and ways to Pitkin County as well as Aspen, Colorado when he ran for Sheriff. In an article on written by JPW, a quote from Thompson is listed and says “some may live, but the crazy never die”. You could infer what he is meaning by this saying and personally I feel that he is saying that in order to really live, you got to do crazy things, be adventurous and just live life with no regrets. By doing all this traveling, he learned what some newspapers looked like, what was included in them, what was the heading, etc. He was then able to branch out and become a writer in places that were not
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The story led Thompson to write his first published book, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (1967).” He used his recent experiences and knowledge of how to write, to start being able to move onto things that are more than just a newspaper. His writings soon turned into public magazines, that would be spread out all over the world. With his first article being over a California Motorcycle Group - Hell’s Angels. When Thompson joined the Air Force he found a way to keep up with his writing, becoming the a writer at the Base’s Newspaper. He wrote entertaining sports articles for the newspaper there at the base, and helped him get better and better at writing everyday. “Thompson joined the Air Force in 1955 and was stationed at Eglin Air Proving Ground in Florida, where he began writing entertaining sports articles for the base newspaper.” Thompson most likely did this for two things: 1. To be able to keep up with his writing, 2. being able to help distract his mind from remembering he was practically at war at that current time period. Which is a very smart and simple way to deal with both of this issues. Cause when you’re practically at war, sometimes you need as much time as possible to get your mind off the fact that
The story led Thompson to write his first published book, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (1967).” He used his recent experiences and knowledge of how to write, to start being able to move onto things that are more than just a newspaper. His writings soon turned into public magazines, that would be spread out all over the world. With his first article being over a California Motorcycle Group - Hell’s Angels. When Thompson joined the Air Force he found a way to keep up with his writing, becoming the a writer at the Base’s Newspaper. He wrote entertaining sports articles for the newspaper there at the base, and helped him get better and better at writing everyday. “Thompson joined the Air Force in 1955 and was stationed at Eglin Air Proving Ground in Florida, where he began writing entertaining sports articles for the base newspaper.” Thompson most likely did this for two things: 1. To be able to keep up with his writing, 2. being able to help distract his mind from remembering he was practically at war at that current time period. Which is a very smart and simple way to deal with both of this issues. Cause when you’re practically at war, sometimes you need as much time as possible to get your mind off the fact that