Songs of the doomed : more notes on the death of the American dream : Gonzo papers, vol. 3 by Thompson Hunter S

Author:Thompson, Hunter S
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thompson, Hunter S, Political culture
Publisher: New York : Summit Books
Published: 1990-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

arms and was taken by the North Vietnamese soldiers to an undisclosed destination. (Soon after, the Saigon radio fell silent, normal telephone and telegraph communications ceased, and the Associated Press said its wire link to the capital was lost at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Saigon time. . . .)

Saigon, April 1975

CHECKING INTO THE LANE XANG

^Tll talk with Your Daughter Tomorrow . . ."

I have finally arrived in Vientiane after a long and torturous five-day journey from Saigon, via Hong Kong and Bangkok. When I walked into the Lane Xang Hotel, sometime around two-thirty this morning in a drenching monsoon rain, the man at the desk first refused to let me register because he said I had no reservation. Which may or may not have been true, depending on which view of the understandably scrambled Indochinese mind one subscribes to in these menacing times. But, in fact, I had sent a cable from Hong Kong, requesting a large room with a king-size bed, quick access to the pool, and a view of the Mekong River, which flows in front of the hotel.

After a fairly savage argument, the night clerk agreed to a compromise. He would give me the best suite in the hotel for as long as I wanted, provided I gave him twenty green American dollars at once for the company of his daughter for the rest of the night. He described her as a "young and beautiful student, not a bar girl," who spoke excellent English and would certainly have no objection to being awakened at three in the morning and hauled over to the hotel by taxi in a hellish rainstorm, just in order to make me happy.

"Look," I said, "you are dealing with a very tired person. The only thing I want right now is a long sleep in a big bed with nobody bothering me. I have nothing against meeting your daughter; I'm sure she's a wonderful person, but why don't I just give you twenty dollars and

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