I agree with you whole heartedly that the mind of Hunter S. Thompson is a drastically different one than what other people in society would call... normal. As Duke and his "Attorney" go on a drug binge (specifically the one binge they were scared of, an Ether Binge) they roam Las Vegas and basically try to function like normal people while having a drug orgy. I find this intriguing and quite humorous at the same time. The action these guys are taking and the reaction of the people who they interact with is just a tell tale sign of what time period they are in. As it turns out the story takes place somewhere in the 1960's to 1970's, which would explain the mass drug use (The Hendrix Period just to give a visualization of what it would look like). I also found it humorous since even though he was a "professional journalist" he still found ways to have fun like going to the circus event wasted on Ether (which makes you act like the "village drunkard in some early Irish novel" (pg. 45)). To answer your question Brian about how the drug thing all started, I remember them saying on pg. 4 in the beginning of the book that they rounded up all the drugs "in a frenzy of high-speed driving all over Los Angeles Country--from Topanga to Watts, we picked up everything we could get our hands on. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."I also think the Attorney is not really an Attorney. I think it might just be his friend.
To answer your second question I think they just chose to have a convertible simply because they wanted to. I dont know why the tape recorder was hard to find but I do know Duke needed it for his Journalism about the races and such.
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