FaLiLV - Sheet1 (1)

Question 1

What is the first symbol of Fear and Loathing?

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Bats

Question 2

What are the bats a symbol of?

Answer 2

Cursings

Question 3

Where are the men at the beginning of the novel?

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Wilderness

Question 4

What is the desert a symbol of?

Answer 4

Cursings

Question 5

What is the story they’re asked to cover?

Answer 5

The Mint 400

Question 6

What does the narrator think the real story is?

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The American Dream

Question 7

He who makes a beast of himself_____

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Gets rid of the pain of being a man

Question 8

I walked over to the TV set and

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Turned it on a dead channel white noise

Question 9

This is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

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REality itself is too twisted

Question 10

In a town of bedrock crazies..

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Nobody even notices an acid freak

Question 11

That poor fool should have stayed where he was. Punks like that

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Just get in the way when they try to be serious

Question 12

I want to confess…v____ m____ c______ m________ m________ I’m g_______

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Venal, Mortal, Carnal, Major, Minor, Guilty

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My primitive Christian instincts have

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Made me a criminal

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I remember telling myself, over and over again…

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You’re not guilty

Question 15

You’d better take care of me, Lord.

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Because if you don’t you’re going to have me on your hands

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I located my Ecclesiastical Discount Card

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Doctor of Divinity Minister of the Church of the New Truth

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I was just another f-ed up cleric

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With a bad heart

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I felt like a monster reincarnation of

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Horatio Alger

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Just sick enough

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To be totally confident

Question 20

Nixon’s face filled the screen.

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But his speech was hopelessly garbled

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The only word I could make out was

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Sacrifice

Question 22

The essential old-mystical fallacy of the Acid Culture

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The desperate assumption that

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Somebody, or at least some force

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is tending that Light at the end of the tunnel

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It is also the military ethic

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a blind faith in in some wiser and higher authority

Question 25

One of the crucial moments of the sixties came on that day when

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he Beatles cast their lot with the Maharishi

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It was like Dylan

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going to the Vatican to kiss the Pope’s ring.

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And now following Manson’s primitive/instinct lead

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a whole new wave of clantype commune gods

Question 28

That sense of inevitable victory.

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over the forces of old and evil

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Our energy would simply

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Prevail

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We were riding the crest

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Of a high and beautiful wave

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So now

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Less than five years later

Question 32

You can go up on a steep hill.

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in Las Vegas and look West

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And with the right kind of eyes

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you can see the high-water mark

Question 34

That place where the wave.

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.finally broke and rolled back

Question 35

If Charlie Mason checked into the Sahara tomorrow morning

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Nobody would hassle him if he tipped big

Question 36

The reefer butt is called a roach.

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Because it resembles a cockroach

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What the f are these people talking about? Youd have to be

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high on acid to think a joint looked like a gd cockroach

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Beyond this I’d been out of my head for so long now

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A gig like this seemed perfectly logical

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After West Point and the priesthood

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LSD must have seemed perfectly logical to him

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My risk, my gun

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It made perfect sense

Question 41

Drug reasoning

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The rhythms were brutally clear