There is a story about Hunter S. Thompson typing out the Great Gatsby word for word. He said he wanted to feel greatness coming from his finger tips. He claimed helped him learn Fitzgerald’s writing style and provided him a better understanding of how he constructed his prose. I don’t know if this is true or if it is just some random story he threw out there that became a part of his legend but even Johnny Depp retold it while doing press for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I have a hard time believing the stories told about people like Thompson. Charles Bukowski would complain about people bugging him after his spoken word events to go out drinking. When asked how he could live the way he did and be as productive as he was, he basically said, “It’s fiction.” There is no way all the stories could be true. No one could survive that, but it does sell...
