In Memorium: A Great Man Meets His Death. Reflections On The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

roads diverged....and I have chosen the one least traveled, and that has made all the difference." So, Hunter might have felt as he came upon two paths on the road of life. He may have chosen a path that few of us would take, but in passing through those woods, he passed away from life in the same way that he lived his short life: with integrity, a fierce yearning for individual independence, and a man that would accept few compromises. All of us in the literary world will miss Hunter S. Thompson for his writing, his poetry, and his satire, but more important, he will be missed for himself. Hunter was a unique person who left us all a view of life untainted by the stigma of rose colored glasses. He showed us the harsh realities of life with a little sugar added, to make those lessons found on the journey of life easier to swallow. Some may have disagreed with his lifestyle, his sometimes harsh intake on the human condition, but few would deny him his the name given to him by critics in the literary world. Writer. In the end, one word summarizes a description of the man that was Hunter S. Thompson. Many may follow his steps through the paths of the forest, but none will be able to cut a path in the same way as he crossed. Thompson made his on way through the forest, and left the woods in the same way that he traveled. Henry David Thoreau once noted that he left Walden pond because he had other lives to live, that his path towards the pond had become to worn and crossed, and that it was time to take another way into the forest. So, Thompson must have felt as he undertook the final steps of his own personal mythical journey through the literary American heartland.

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