Hunter S. Thompson's Song Of The Sausage Creature

A 1,000,000 watt spotlight, a teakwood gripped handgun with high-powered ammunition, an elk’s heart, frozen, rounded off with a tape recording of a pig being eaten alive by bears playing on a massive outdoor amp. With these humble tools, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson wished his friend Jack Nicholson a happy birthday late in the evening. The recording blaring, spotlight shining, handgun discharged into the sky and elks heart, presumably, thawing on Nicholson’s doorstep. I would like to think that this serves as a worthwhile introduction of this modern day Loki of literature. A brilliant writer who crafted his stories as much in his manner of living as he ever did in ink. I choose his work because of the unique blend of, well, madness that pervades his prose. If he is anything else, he is memorable and vibrant in his style. Instead of being pulled along or laboriously pushing yourself along as often happens in reading, Thompson seizes the reader by the lapel and throws us into the front of a carnival ride of questionable construct and safety. …show more content…
Sure, he covers the acceleration and handling of the motorcycle, but he speaks of it more as a sinister extension of the soul than a product to be considered for purchase. Indeed, the author explores his own paranoia and possible danger from the New York Polo Mafia. Was this figurative? Only Thompson knows. Did it have anything to do with the article? Absolutely not. We’re riding his stream of consciousness now. As much as Thompson describes the bike, he describes the wild edge present within many riders. The Sausage Creature, never really defined, yet recognized all the same. The Sausage Creature, the end-state, the result, the feared judgement handed down by the meeting of speed, of asphalt and of