H.S.T.

So I'm here in Louisville, Ky., for a few days at this thing called the Idea Festival and tonight I went to a screening of a documentary and a subsequent panel discussion on the life of Hunter S. Thompson. Got me thinking about the man's unique work. Like how he, always, as a rule, inserted himself into his stories. He was not only a character but the main character. He created situations, influenced them, then watched reactions and wrote about them. He was the big potato in the stew was the way somebody put it in the film. Another thing: Somebody else said something along the lines of how Thompson's book on the '72 campaign was the least truthful but most accurate piece of journalism he'd ever read.