Hunter S. Thompson copied over Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, word for word, on his typewriter, because he wanted to know what it felt like to write his favorite book.
When I learned this fact, I thought it a waste of time, to copy a text that was already in print. Upon further investigation, I found Thompson had copied over the “The Great Gatsby” in its entirety not once. But twice. To repeat such a lengthy, laborious and tediously intense task twice over, could only mean that the process ha
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