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...relatively anonymous associates, but apparently confided fully not even in them. Yet he shared powerful prejudices with them, most dangerously a siege mentality in which so many other vague classifications of Americans ?liberals, antiwar radicals, academic intellectuals, Eastern sophisticates, the press?were seen as enemies, akin to unfriendly foreign powers. They were to be subverted, subjected to surveillance and eavesdropping, and "screwed" by agencies of Government. Nixon's re-election campaign became a crusade in which any means were seen as justified to keep all those fearful foes out of power. National security was equated with Nixon security...
...these stories, or others about his adventures making Italian potboilers (an Italian producer once hired him by mistake to play a tall, blond soldier) with graphic glee, acting out all the parts as he goes. About his private life he is more reticent. He concedes that he is partly akin to Columbo. "I'm a worrier, I'm not the neatest guy in the world, I'm obstinate-but I'm not as clever as Columbo...
...neonlit car-gorged strips. To assault this scene in a fitting manner, Thompson employs a personal brand of "gonzo journalism," opposed to professional journalism and characterized by the need for "intense, demented involvement" with the subject. Although it requires a much greater degree of personal involvement, gonzo journalism is akin to Tom Wolfe's style of reporting -- which evolved in one instance into "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" after Wolfe hightailed around the West following Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters...
...trial of three University of Michigan students whose arrest had been partially based on wiretap information, Federal Judge Damon Keith observed that much of the Government's legal argument seemed to be based on the concept that "a dissident domestic organization is akin to an unfriendly foreign power and must be dealt with in the same fashion." On the contrary, said Keith, even the attempts of domestic organizations to attack and subvert the existing structure of Government become criminal only when they are carried out "through unlawful means, such as the invasion of the rights of others...
Though I tried to remain awake after reading such tales, I felt an overpowering anomalous drowsiness quite akin to being sated with green chartreuse. Once asleep, I found myself again in the cemetery. A minatory wind scuttled through the silent tombstones, and Charonian shadows leapt and grimaced with unspeakable frenzy. What was most unusual for a dream was that my nose was active, wrinkling in disgust at the fetor of rotten grass and the ichor of freshly overturned earth. This time the enshrouded figure spoke to me in hollow tones: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulu R'lyeh...