Fear and Loathing Chapter 8-Part 2

This section of Fear and Loathing had a little bit of everything. A dash of paranoia, a handful of drugs, a teaspoon of high speed chasing and police work and even a little sprinkle of actual good literature. The main section that I really enjoyed and thought was the most deeply written thing in the book so far was near the end of chapter 8 on page 67 and 68. Within these last final paragraphs of the chapter Hunter S. Thompson takes a moment to reflect on the hippie zeitgeist. In a few hundred words the author captures the rise and fall of a movement. He mentions "You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning... The inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave..."(pg. 68). I believe this is the most heart felt passage Hunter has written so far in the book. Wouldn't you agree Brian? If you have anything else to say about this passage that hasn't already been said would you mind sharing it with me? and to answer your questions I am indeed enjoying the book. The only problems I have faced while reading is the fact that it is very hard to follow. Not in a vocabulary or complicated storyline sense, but just the plain old fact that there is no storyline to follow. Books like Freedom at midnight may be hard to read, but at least it has a story line and follows the basic graph of a normal novel (rising action, climax, falling action sort of stuff). This story is just plain everywhere, ups and downs, ups and downs. Just a bit confusing is all I have to say. Hunter S. Thompson has, to put it lightly, a very ... different ... way of writing.