While befriending them he discovers that not only would they like him to get intoxicated with them, but they begin to hack away at government officials and rail against the city of Washington D.C. On his way there he picks up a pair of men who were stranded. This comes in early in the book when he describes Washington D.C. He has imbibed the drug culture and has found himself caught between actual gentlemen and the rougher working class people. Hunter introduces himself to readers as a bit of a misfit Hippie figure. Many "sins" which might have gone unforgiven were rapidly excused if only because, well, "It's rock-n-roll." He made himself famous with Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and through writing for Rolling Stone magazine. At the same time, he somehow managed to keep up with the others. The man is a journalist: he could not spend too much time with them. This man made himself famous by writing a book based on his experiences with one of USA's most prevalent criminal organizations - the Hell's Angels. Thompson managed to make a name for himself as a successful journalist despite what could have been an almost crippling handicap - his intimacy with "counter culture." Instead, he managed to make the unruly aspects of his nature and behavior an asset within the field of journalism. This is an account written by a journalist.
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