Alcoholics have a common self-destructive tendency. I don't know why. I have a natural sense of intimacy with such people. I often feel that how we can meet each other, we will become friends.
Not long ago, I saw the poster of the movie "Lime Diary", 49 bottles of rum spelled the title of The Rum Diary, and I liked it all of a sudden. The film will be released in the United States on October 28. When I can see it, I don’t know when? Johnny Depp's protagonist Paul Camp, tired of the hustle and bustle of New York and the depression of the post-Eisenhower era in the United States, went to Puerto Rico to work as a reporter for a depressed newspaper and lived a life of drunken dreams in Puerto Rico.
Henry Thompson, the author of the original novel of The Lime Diary, is also an alcoholic, born in Kentucky in 1937. On a quiet Sunday, February 20, 2005, when calling his wife, he picked up the pistol and pulled the trigger at himself.
People who know him say that he is not a melancholic, nor is he a person who is pessimistic and desperate about life. On the contrary, he has become famous and has been living on the cusp of life.
Thompson spent his youth in jail for drunkenness and damage to property, and later worked as a reporter for "Rolling Stone" magazine and became famous in the 1960s. It was a great era. He created the "absurd news" school, writing news with novel styles, and became a counterculture pioneer along with Marcuse, Ginsberg, and Kerouac. Most of his reports are written in the first person, eloquently, laughing and cursing, and expressing subjective feelings without cover, but often hit the nail on the head. His style is similar to today's blog writing, so he is respected as the spiritual godfather of blogger. In "The Pig of the Century," he described the president of the United States this way: "Bush's crimes are so serious that he can make Nixon appear innocent; Clinton is a pig, but he is our pig." His writing has influenced a generation of America. The writer, "He stripped off the gorgeous appearance of American society with a sharp pen, and presented a real beating heart to the world."
In life, Thompson is rebellious and unruly. He doesn’t leave his hand smoking, drinking and drugging, and he likes to collect guns. Mary, the editor of the Aspen Times, once witnessed Thompson, who was drunk and drunk, open three consecutive books to one of his books. Gun, and then gave it to a friend, saying: "This is my autograph." One of his last wishes is to put the ashes into the cannon and blast into the sky.
"He may die earlier, but he makes up for it with quality rather than number of lives..." This is the comment of the editor of the Thompson column-he was wrong. Thompson lived to be 68 years old. For an alcoholic, This is considered longevity-it's just that he doesn't want to live anymore. Friends said that he would commit suicide sooner or later.
I think he just likes other alcoholics I know, he likes to end his life in his own way.
On August 20, 2005, in a small mountain village in Colorado, where Thompson committed suicide, Johnny Depp invested 2.5 million US dollars to load his ashes into a cannon and fired them into the night sky with fireworks.
The so-called drunk life and dreams of death.
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