RTFA: http://www.iheartchaos.com/2008/01/14/ten-best-hun…

Eat Shit and Die
“There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It’s a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.”
-Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ’80s, 1988

I agree with some of these… and having been primarily confined to the HST published book world, I appreciated some of his quotes that released through Rolling Stone and other journalism outlets.

RTFA: http://www.greatbooksguide.com/NobelPrize.html

“I had a hunch a woman writer living in Britain would win the Nobel Prize in Literature this year. But I still wasn’t prepared for the thrill I experienced when I learned that J.K. Rowling had won the coveted prize. After all, who has done more for the cause of reading in recent decades? The last time a British woman had received this honor was back in 1966 when Dame Agatha Christie shared the award with Jorge Luis Borges. I expect Rowling’s acceptance speech will rank among the most memorable. (Although it’s hard to imagine anything topping that moment in 1997, when Dr. Hunter S. Thompson mounted the podium in Stockholm to share his surprising sentiments with the audience.) . . .”No, this is not the real Nobel Prize in Literature, but the way the award might exist in an alternative universe — a world in which such honors are exempt from pettiness, politics and tokenism. Imagine a Nobel Prize in which the contributions of Proust, Kafka, Nabokov and Joyce are not forgotten. Imagine a Nobel Prize in Literature in which genre writers have a chance. Imagine a Nobel Prize in Literature that doesn’t bend over backward to exclude native born U.S. writers (only three honored during the last 52 years!). Ah, don’t just imagine . . . read about it here.

Pretty interesting idea, and a really interesting list. HST in ‘97!