FaLiLV - Sheet1 (1) Flashcards
What is the first symbol of Fear and Loathing?
Bats
What are the bats a symbol of?
Cursings
Where are the men at the beginning of the novel?
Wilderness
What is the desert a symbol of?
Cursings
What is the story they’re asked to cover?
The Mint 400
What does the narrator think the real story is?
The American Dream
He who makes a beast of himself_____
Gets rid of the pain of being a man
I walked over to the TV set and
Turned it on a dead channel white noise
This is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.
REality itself is too twisted
In a town of bedrock crazies..
Nobody even notices an acid freak
That poor fool should have stayed where he was. Punks like that
Just get in the way when they try to be serious
I want to confess…v____ m____ c______ m________ m________ I’m g_______
Venal, Mortal, Carnal, Major, Minor, Guilty
My primitive Christian instincts have
Made me a criminal
I remember telling myself, over and over again…
You’re not guilty
You’d better take care of me, Lord.
Because if you don’t you’re going to have me on your hands
I located my Ecclesiastical Discount Card
Doctor of Divinity Minister of the Church of the New Truth
I was just another f-ed up cleric
With a bad heart
I felt like a monster reincarnation of
Horatio Alger
Just sick enough
To be totally confident
Nixon’s face filled the screen.
But his speech was hopelessly garbled
The only word I could make out was
Sacrifice
The essential old-mystical fallacy of the Acid Culture
The desperate assumption that
Somebody, or at least some force
is tending that Light at the end of the tunnel
It is also the military ethic
a blind faith in in some wiser and higher authority
One of the crucial moments of the sixties came on that day when
he Beatles cast their lot with the Maharishi
It was like Dylan
going to the Vatican to kiss the Pope’s ring.
And now following Manson’s primitive/instinct lead
a whole new wave of clantype commune gods
That sense of inevitable victory.
over the forces of old and evil
Our energy would simply
Prevail
We were riding the crest
Of a high and beautiful wave
So now
Less than five years later
You can go up on a steep hill.
in Las Vegas and look West
And with the right kind of eyes
you can see the high-water mark
That place where the wave.
.finally broke and rolled back
If Charlie Mason checked into the Sahara tomorrow morning
Nobody would hassle him if he tipped big
The reefer butt is called a roach.
Because it resembles a cockroach
What the f are these people talking about? Youd have to be
high on acid to think a joint looked like a gd cockroach
Beyond this I’d been out of my head for so long now
A gig like this seemed perfectly logical
After West Point and the priesthood
LSD must have seemed perfectly logical to him
My risk, my gun
It made perfect sense
Drug reasoning
The rhythms were brutally clear
