a few slippery syllables 
~tffb
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So I was curious about a line from Fear and Loathing in las Vegas -
after HST and Oscar Acosta "kidnap" the hotel maid, and convince
her that THEY are police working undercover (and not beligerent
drug addicts), Oscar escorts the maid to the door and tells her to
leave a pile of towels outside the door at exactly midnight - a few
other words were said, but then he says a quote that is
indistinguishable from the rest of the dialogue. A confident nod
and whispered line always had me wondering: "what did he say?"

I looked it up years ago, apparently he said a Mark Twain line
like: "may God bless the honest men", or something to that affect.

This lead me to further reading on OZA, he disappeared in 1974
after a boat trip in Mexico saw him either overdosed or killed. He
wrote books and hated HST after F&L came out, because "his best
lines" were stolen by Hunter.

I liked reading the Wikipedia bit about the obituary for OZA by
HST, "The Wild Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat": "Oscar was a
stupid quack with no morals and the soul of a hammerhead shark".
Punches the lines right through. Like a bomb going off at a
mortuary.

OZA ran for Sheriff in LA in the late-60s, Thompson for Sheriff of
Aspen, Colorado in 1970 - the documentary about HST in Aspen at the
time is on my to-watch list. The Freak Power thing. In those times,
stuff like The Weather Underground and
uncontrolled-yet-times-are-too-good-to-care radicalism were going
on all the time - from Zodiac to that wealthy dude's daughter
knocking over banks and becoming a small time celebrity from it.
Now the celebrity criminals are relegated to politicians and former
finance executives.

Crime is crime, and bad is bad, but the only pertinence to it all
is that we (society) actually put some consideration of consequence
for "carried-away" actions by radicals. Still, the muffling of
everyone via over-self-conscious social media exchanges and The
Patriot Act-ism does less to stifle any ill actions, but ensures a
boiled-over, pressure cooker of words and feelings takes place in
many who "care" to (fall folly of) participate in social media
consumption.

These days, (for me, many in my age group and of course many
older/younger) have an ambivalence toward strained and restricted
views/attitudes of those who aren't good with "just do
it-ive-ness". In the American political spectrum, intense (and
intensely opposite) ideologies pull with vigor on both sides of the
aisle, for any living here it's fairly clear who is winning that
tug-of-(power)-war, but nothing is ever certain, so voting matters.

If one is wishing a "point" to all this, there is none. Words to
flow and ramble.