Comments on: With the right kind of eyes… http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2005/02/21/with-the-right-kind-of-eyes/ As honest as a gambling man can be Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:19:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ed Cohen http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2005/02/21/with-the-right-kind-of-eyes/comment-page-1/#comment-53487 Ed Cohen Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:18:28 +0000 http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/archives/2005/02/21/with-the-right-kind-of-eyes/#comment-53487 Simply the greatest passage of prose ever written about the sixties - the fact he was so massively removed from ordered reality gave him the separation needed to write with such brutal clarity, insight and objectivity - unfortunately it also robbed him of the ability to produce work of this calibre consistently. Reading Thompson can often be like mining for gold, 99% of his output was often meaningless by-product of no consequence - but that 1%, that 1% was something so very, very special. In his own words, Thompson was "one of god's prototypes; never considered for mass production" Simply the greatest passage of prose ever written about the sixties - the fact he was so massively removed from ordered reality gave him the separation needed to write with such brutal clarity, insight and objectivity - unfortunately it also robbed him of the ability to produce work of this calibre consistently.

Reading Thompson can often be like mining for gold, 99% of his output was often meaningless by-product of no consequence - but that 1%, that 1% was something so very, very special.

In his own words, Thompson was “one of god’s prototypes; never considered for mass production”

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