[MD] Robert P. and Hunter T. debate the merits of Samuel C.

[John Carl]

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no
man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his
own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.


 Hunter S. Thompson

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Anita Thompson spent part of Thursday printing black-and-white photos of
eight writers, all deceased, her former husband most admired.

Samuel Coleridge. Joseph Conrad. William Faulkner. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Ernest Hemingway. Henry Miller. John Steinbeck. Mark Twain.

Anita Thompson hopes to hang the prints in a massive bar being constructed
on the 42-acre Thompson property as part of the send-off that will see
Hunter Thompson's ashes blasted from a 153-foot "fist cannon" Saturday
night.

"The snow leopards," Anita Thompson said of the writers, referring to her
former husband's expression that successful persons, no matter their career,
were all similar in some way; they were all "snow leopards."

Hunter Thompson himself has been painted as a literary snow leopard, but
also a cartoon character, and a gonzo writer — the latter because of his
unique mix of drugs, guns and words. But friends and family are using
Saturday's event, although it is closed to the public, as a time to
reinforce the idea that Thompson was, above all, about good writing.

Hunter Thompson killed himself with a gun blast to the head at his home on
Feb. 20.

As Anita Thompson padded around the kitchen Thursday afternoon — the same
kitchen Hunter Thompson famously worked out of — she set on the counter the
11-inch-by-14-inch prints that she expects to put in gold frames. The
sepialike photos show the authors in formal dress, most gazing seriously at
the camera.

Hunter Thompson had a favorite quote, and learned something different from
each author, Anita Thompson explained.

For a quote from Coleridge, Anita Thompson finds the card printed up for
Hunter Thompson's March 5 commemoration which cites the last stanza of Kubla
Khan:

"Weave a circle round him thrice, and close your eyes with holy dread, for
he on honey-dew hath fed, and drunk the milk of Paradise."

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  "THIS IS THE SORT OF NONSENSE THAT HAS INSPIRED LOGICAL POSITIVISM"
(Pirsig, Emphasis is Adrie's)