I'd forgotten he was dead (he died in 2005).
My confusion arises because someone, somewhere, regularly tweets under is name.
These extracts from his books are really potent in tweet form and are also relevant again; Thompson was a critic of Nixon, so when I read "Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?" I assumed he was rallying against the incumbent President.
But Wikipedia shows that he is, indeed no longer with us. It's kind of spooky how peoples identities can be managed beyond the grave.
I liked this quote:
"And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction that all the machinery was rigged against him, at the bottom of his soul was a faith that he was going to outwit it, that by carefully watching the signs he was going to know when to dodge and be spared."
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