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This reads as a complaint about the dead zone of the sports calendar, when the usual excitement has nothing to hang on to. It can be taken to mean that television sports depend on rhythm and anticipation, and without a strong season there is only drag and repetition. It lands on a quiet winter night when even fans are left with little to watch.
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About Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author
Hunter S. Thompson was an American journalist and author, best known as a pioneer of New Journalism. He became widely known for Hell's Angels (1967) and for the vivid, confrontational style that later came to be called Gonzo journalism. For Hell's Angels, he spent a year with the Hells Angels motorcycle club and wrote from direct experience of their lives. His profile rose further with “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” a 1970 article for Scanlan's Monthly that helped establish his reputation as a countercultural writer and a central figure in Gonzo, where the writer becomes part of the story.
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Books by Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2005
Hell's Angels
1966
Kingdom of Fear
2003
Generation of swine
1988
Hey Rube
2004