Hunter S Thompson is beastly dead

No link, the details are simple and if you can't find the story on the internet, then I would be seriously interested in how you came to be reading this post to begin with.

Noam Chomsky has been widely quoted as saying "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." Sometimes words can be arranged to sound like sentences without conveying any meaning. That's Chomsky's point of course.

Did Hunter S. Thompson channel the nightmares of the colorless green ideas in his prose? It was certainly furious and not bound by the usual conventions of what is generally acknowledged to be reality.

Here's the odd thing about the sleep of colorless green ideas, I've brought this example up in a class, and a student became obviously confused for a few moments and then suggested that not only did they understand what that proposition means, but moreover, that its obviously true. Usually when I bring up this example, there's at least one student who really seems on the verge of asserting that the proposition really does make sense after all.

The electricity of HST's prose made it fun. What made it worth reading was the thought that this electric current might actually carrying a message, the insistant throb maybe a way to another perspective of the world.