[Meatloaf] Eloquent Life/Career Advice to a Friend from Author Hunter Thompson

[Jim Hatfield]

I like it!!!

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024, 10:41 PM Jeff Hayas <jeff.hayas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.
>
> All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
> You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...
> For great justice.
>
> Folks --
>
> While for most of us it's "too late for do-overs", this is nonetheless a
> fascinating advice-essay.  I just sent a copy to my own son, who is 32 and
> in-between jobs.
>
> This was written long before Thompson became a drug-crazed nut-job. In
> fact he had just been honorably discharged from the US Air Force.  But
> apparently he already had a defiant attitude.  From his Wikipedia Bio ...
>
> In 1958, while he was an airman first class, his commanding officer
> recommended him for an early honorable discharge. "In summary, this
> airman, although talented, will not be guided by policy," chief of
> information services Colonel William S. Evans wrote to the Eglin
> personnel office. "Sometimes his rebel and superior attitude seems to rub
> off on other
> airmen staff members."
>
> After leaving the Air Force, Thompson worked as sports editor for a
> newspaper in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, before relocating to New York
> City. There he audited several courses at the Columbia University School
> of General Studies. During this time he worked briefly for *Time* as a copy
> boy
> for $51 a week. At work, he typed out parts of F. Scott Fitzgerald's *The
> Great Gatsby* and Ernest Hemingway's *A Farewell to Arms* in order to
> learn the authors' rhythms and writing styles. In 1959, *Time* fired him
> for  insubordination. Later that year, he worked as a reporter for *The
> Middletown Daily Record* in Middletown, New York. He was fired from this
> job after damaging an office candy machine and arguing with the owner of
> a local restaurant who happened to be an advertiser with the paper.
>
>
>
> -- Jeff.H
>
> ----/----
> Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a
> Meaningful Life <https://fs.blog/hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan/>
>
> In April of 1958, Hunter S. Thompson was 22 years old when he wrote this
> letter to his friend Hume Logan in response to a request for life advice.
>
> Thompson’s letter, found in *Letters of Note <https://amzn.to/49FwHuC>*,
> offers some of the most thoughtful and profound advice I’ve ever
> encountered for those of us feeling a little lost.
>
> ...
>
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