Fear and Loathing: Part two

Brian Huynh

Oh Kentaro, I do agree with you that the passage was pretty heartwarming. It did remind me of a triumph of good and evil in a way. Part two of this book starts very similarly in setting wise as the beginning but it is kind of a status check. Again, Duke is driving in the desert in the "red shark" but this time he is heavily down on drugs. His inventory has been eaten up over the past adventures in part 1 of this book. "My attorney had eaten all the reds, but there was quite a bit of speed left...no more grass, the coke bottle was empty, one acid blotter, a nice brown lump of opium hash and six loose amyls." You can tell that over the expedition, Duke and his attorney has used up most of the drug stock that they had which is plenty enough. On page 100-101, I have noticed that he is worrying more about if he gets caught because he practices responses in his mind just in case he would of gotten caught. This could be foreshadowing to a later event in the future. Also I have a kinda practical questions...has he been high during the whole book? I realized that ever since the beginning when he has seen the bats until now with the slugs that he has been high the whole book. This makes me think of all the damage he is doing physically and mentally to himself. Also on page 101, he is buying more drugs so this makes me predict that knowing the past, he is probably going to remain high for the remains of the book, or run out of drugs and go crazy. What do you think?