Wild Boar Quotes

“About a week earlier I had finished a book (on the Hell's Angels, scheduled this fall by Random House) and I felt that I needed about a week of total degeneration to cool out my system. To this end I went down to Big Sur and Monterery and filled my body with every variety of booze and drug available to modern man. For six or seven days I ran happily amok - spending money, sitting in baths, and futilely hunting wild boar with a .44 Magnum revolver. At one point I gave my car away to a man who paid $25 for the privilege of pushing it off a 400-foot cliff.

- to Max Scherr editor, Berkley Barb 7/20/1966”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“Were they any more lonely the silken ladies peering through those slits, than the Renée and the Frannçoise of today, with the clammy water damping the mouldering walls, and the forest, thick and shaggy, shrouding the very door ? Did the wild boar, fiery-eyed, come rooting where the cattle wandered now and the thin horn of the huntsman sound in early morning when the mist still clung about the trees ?”
― Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat