The Wild Strange Ride Of Hunter S. Thompson: Part II
real scene of the crime, and speaking directly to the murderers involved in the case. By visiting the town in which the murder occurred, and interviewing first hand witnesses to these events, Capote then combined these facts with his superb narrative style to produce a first class literary work of fiction. He also proved that he could sell books. "In Cold Blood" became an instant success, selling ---------copies and reaching ------on the New York Times Bestseller listings. Thompson would learn from this success and capitulate on it by turning factual encounters and stories from his own life into fictional stories of prose and poetry. Soon, this line between the narrative prose of a fictional writer and the actual event from history would join together into a style of writing undefined before, thus opening another door in the annals of literary history. Capatoe may have found the path, but Hunter S. Thompson was determined to follow it following an ever-eternal glow that always seemed to light the gradual glimmer of light from the songs of his ill-fated muse. Fate was carrying Thompson into a realm never before experienced by other writers, and his tales would soon carry his readers into lands of the mind never before dreamed of in the literary imagination.
The legends surrounding his life soon became mixed with his own created reality, and Hunter S. Thompson found himself slowly maturing into a writer of individual character and confidence. Interviews of his own development as a writer are often as vague and sketchy as the seeking the diference between his image as a writer and his existence as a living human being. Who the real Hunter S. Thompson soon becomes lost the deeper one explores the life and prose of this still breathing beat writer. Several other influences can be found working inside of the writings of Thompson besides his usual expected anti-authoratarian stance. One of these are some of the associations that Thompson has known in the past. He spoke of some of these and some of the writers that had influenced him the greatest in his newest release, "Kingdom of Fear." When questioned of the influence that any of the beat writers may have played in his personal development as a writer, Thompson answers,
"Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer.....in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. Kerouac taught me that you could get away with writing about drugs and get published. It was possible, and in a symbolic way I expected Kerouac to
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