Re: Philip K Dick
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:12 am
Is this why so many didn't like Pres Nixon?
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I just recently read Hunter S. Thompson's farewell words to Nixon. Now THAT was a man who didn't like the Dick President:Pigeon wrote:Is this why so many didn't like Pres Nixon?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... rook/8699/If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.
These are harsh words for a man only recently canonized by President Clinton and my old friend George McGovern -- but I have written worse things about Nixon, many times, and the record will show that I kicked him repeatedly long before he went down. I beat him like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it. He was scum.
And Kissinger?lkwalker wrote:In the darkest secret recesses of every human soul hides a little Nixon presiding over himself like a genie in a bottle. Even in the soul of Hunter Thompson. Reading the Watergate Transcripts, which I often do to this day, has always been for me a viscerally dangerous, shiverus engagement with my own. Even Dostoyevsky couldn't have created a stranger phantom.
Nixon? He is the archetype of the false man.
That was awesome.TraumaT wrote:I just recently read Hunter S. Thompson's farewell words to Nixon. Now THAT was a man who didn't like the Dick President:Pigeon wrote:Is this why so many didn't like Pres Nixon?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... rook/8699/If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.
These are harsh words for a man only recently canonized by President Clinton and my old friend George McGovern -- but I have written worse things about Nixon, many times, and the record will show that I kicked him repeatedly long before he went down. I beat him like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it. He was scum.