Thompson’s Ashes May Be Shot From Cannon
Feb 23rd, 2005 by cadmus
Noteable quote:
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If the Thompson job were his, Williams said, he would probably blast the ashes from a 12-inch-diameter mortar 800 feet into the sky. Then a second, window-rattling blast would scatter them amid a blossom of color 600 feet across.“If you were going to light up a flash-bomb worthy of Hunter S. Thompson, you’d want to make it an earth-shaker,” Williams said.
Sales of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and other Thompson favorites have soared since his death. “Fear and Loathing” was No. 15 on Amazon.com as of Wednesday and publisher Vintage Books has ordered a sizable reprinting.
“We usually sell about 60,000-70,000 copies a year of that book and our next printing will be close to that total,” Vintage spokesman Russell Perreault said.
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ABC News: Thompson’s Ashes May Be Shot From Cannon
And this from CNN:
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“I think he made a conscious decision that he had an incredible run of 67 years, lived the way he wanted to, and wasn’t going to suffer the indignities of old age,” Brinkley said in a telephone interview from Aspen. “He was not going to let anybody dictate how he was going to die.”
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