Fear and Loathing in America by Hunter S. Thompson

Author:Hunter S. Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Published: 2000-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

TO JANN WENNER, ROLLING STONE:

Back from his trip to Las Vegas with Oscar Acosta, Thompson was broke, trying to iron out the details of his upcoming trip to Vietnam, and all the while steadily shaping his classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

May 7, 1971

Woody Creek, CO

Dear Jann …

Thanx for the various xerox things (payments list to Lynn, Saigon letter, etc.). …I sent a note to that fellow Garstang (see enc. Copy), and I definitely want to talk to him before I go. Be nice to him if he calls or comes by …and consider that “Saigon Notes” idea. Also, it might be good to trade subscriptions with the Vietnam Guardian … that could provide a good check-in point when I get there. If nothing else, the astrology charts are extremely weird in the context of Vietnam/combat. Maybe worth reprinting as a tail to Saigon notes. (There’s also the idea that anybody who subscribes to RS from Vietnam will probably be a long-time subscriber—for reasons too complex for exploration here; just take my word for it—us vets know how it is.)

On other (money) fronts, it seems beyond any question that you owe me a few hundred bucks … which I need, right now, so I can send off a check to L.L. Bean for some special Saigon action-clothes. At the moment I have $92 in the bank, and the Bean check is $96—so I haven’t sent it, and I won’t until I get some funds.

Anyway, according to your list, you still owe me $500 on the Salazar fee. This assumes, also, that $520.85 has already been paid against my Salazar/Vegas expenses … which according to Sandy’s figures amount to $922.04. (No, I already sent a bill for that $20.85—phone calls item—so the remaining unpaid expenses come to $422.04.) This, plus the $500 more for Salazar, means you owe me $922.04. Nine hundred & twenty-two dollars and four cents.

That should bring us up, in time, to the Second Las Vegas gig (not counting expenses, which will be split between RS & Random House—with Spts. Illust. absorbing a chunk of the expenses like hotel & room service, etc., from the first Las Vegas trip … but I haven’t sent them anything yet. I just keep playing “One Toke Over the Line …” And “Let It Bleed.”14 As a matter of fact right now I’m trying to put them together with some of my super/secret/weird/voice tapes from Vegas II (Two) … driving around the countryside with my attorney, asking for the American Dream. We got some very strange replies: “… burned down by junkies” … “got electrocuted while taking a shower in the car” … “The American Dream? In this town?”

Anyway—and by all means correct me at once if I’m wrong—once you pay me for that outstanding $922.04, we’ll be even (except for your share of expenses on Vegas II) up to now. In other words, the $922.04 should cover all fees, expenses & retainers to date, including Salazar & Vegas I—which still

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