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"Kierkegaard’s most famous book, Fear and Trembling (1843)" Makes we wonder did that inspire Hunter S Thompson to name his book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by galaxyLogic 7y ago
"Kierkegaard’s most famous book, Fear and Trembling (1843)"
Makes we wonder did that inspire Hunter S Thompson to name his book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"?
- qntty 7y agoMoreover, "Fear and Loathing", as a phrase, has been used by many writers, the first (possibly) being Friedrich Nietzsche in The Antichrist. In a Rolling Stone magazine interview, Thompson said: "It came out of my own sense of fear, and [is] a perfect description of that situation to me, however, I have been accused of stealing it from Nietzsche or Kafka or something. It seemed like a natural thing." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#Title https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas...
- notonyournelly 7y agoNo. IIRC it came from some book Thomas Wolfe wrote that Hunter had read, but I have forgotten which.
- cristoperb 7y agoI don't know, but that particular phrase is old, from Psalm 55: "Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me" https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+55&version=NRSV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+55&versio...
- galaxyLogic 7y agoInteresting to know. So I assume Thompson was in Vegas, and fear and loathing came upon him :-)