Hunter S. Thompson to Paul Theroux: “We’ll Offer a Course on Writing”
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 02.27.05 | 12:36 AM ET
Globe-trotting author Paul Theroux offers a thoughtful and fond recollection of his friend Hunter S. Thompson in today’s Guardian.
One highlight: Theroux recalls an off-the-cuff proposal Thompson made to him when the two met up in Hawaii, where Theroux lives. “We’ll offer a course on writing,” Thompson said, “and not just writing, but life, travel, philosophy, books, journalism, the whole thing. Do it together, you and me up there in the lecture hall. Every goddamned student will want to take the course. It’ll be great. We’ll meet girls, we’ll make money, check out the surf. I’m sick of the horrible winter and all the snow in Colorado. This is the place, man. We just have to think of a name for the course. Hey, I’ve already cleared it with the president.”
Adds Theroux, “He wasn’t joking - the president of the University of Hawaii was an old friend.” Theroux doesn’t mention whether the course ever came to pass—surely it did not—but if it had, that lecture hall would have been standing room only.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
