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Paul Krassner, one of Hunter’s friends, was then and is now an underground satirist. He founded The Realist<\/em> and I happened to meet him in New\u00a0 York City when Hunter blew into town for his Hell’s Angels<\/em> book tour. I found him quite the quick-witted, interesting conversationalist at the time and also he was nice to look at. He recalls below that he followed up that meeting with a\u00a0 letter to me, getting my name wrong. I remember it well. It wound up in the baffled hands of another copy editor at Random House. Right here is a follow-up letter <\/a>I recently uncovered in my archives that carries the story forward. Anyway, here Paul reminisces\u00a0recently in a excerpt from Abakus<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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On a visit to New York in February, Hunter arranged for me to meet him and his copy editor, Margaret Harrell \u2014 an attractive redhead, smart and witty \u2014 for dinner. Apparently I forgot her name, so it\u2019s possible that I called the publisher and asked for the name of the copy editor. In March, I sent her this letter: Dear Barbara, If you ever decide to try LSD, this is just to offer my services as guide. Incidentally\u2014no, not incidentally \u2014 you are one of the most delicious females I\u2019ve ever seen, and since there was already a mild establishment of intellectual rapport, I feel compelled to state my \u2014 to de-ulteriorize \u2014 my motivation. I would like to make funny, passionate, friendly, cosmic, absurd love with you. Ho hum. I think I\u2019ll attach a questionnaire with this. It is not a form letter, by the way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Hunter S. Thompson as Remembered by Paul Krassner.<\/p>\n

click image to go to full article at Abakus Magazine.<\/p>\n

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Click here to go to 1960’s interview <\/a>with the young satirist, Krassner.<\/p>\n

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