“Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Vanishing Acts
Movies That Feature Vanishing
• Gone Girl (2014)
• Winter’s Bone (2010)
• Frantic (1988)
• Breakdown (1997)
• Vanishing Point (1971)
• Flightplan (2005)
• The Vanishing (1988)
• Hollow in the Land (2019)
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Authors on Vanishing
Five Pieces of Fleeting Advice
• “There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald-
• “I should like to tidy things up and disappear.” -Virginia Woolf-
• “Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.” -H.G. Wells-
• “I do have a sense, and I’ve never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.” -Doris Lessing-
• “Plunder, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.” -Ambrose Bierce-
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Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“I had come regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Black Coffee and Cigarettes: The Mix Tape
1. “Coffee Girl”–The Tragically Hip
2. “Smoke Rings”–Sam Cooke
3. “Cigarettes and Coffee”–Otis Redding
4. “Rum in My Morning Coffee”–Jan Smith
5. “Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray”–Patsy Cline
6. “Don’t Smoke in Bed”–Nina Simone
7. “Cigarettes, Whiskey, and Wild Wild Women”–Jim Croce
8. “Coffee Blues”–Lightnin’ Hopkins
9. “Never Get Out of These Blues Alive”–John Lee Hooker
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Authors on Coffee and Cigarettes
Better Nickel Worth of Wisdom
• “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it a thousand times.” -Mark Twain-
• “I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.” -T.S. Eliot-
• “A cigarette is the perfect type of perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one satisfied. What more can one want?” -Oscar Wilde-
• “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” -Albert Camus-
• “That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry-poetry is still first. Cigarettes and coffee follow.” -Anne Sexton-
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Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives…and to the ‘good life,’ whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
Authors on Doors
Six Bits of Wisdom
• “Men shut their doors against a setting sun.” -William Shakespeare-
• “When you follow your bliss…doors will open where you would not thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.” -Joseph Campbell-
• “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” -Aldous Huxley-
• “The more dooors there are for you to open, the better the play.” -Tom Stoppard-
• “A very litttle key will open a very heavy door.” -Charles Dickens-
• “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as is, infinite.” -William Blake-
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Blues at Your Door: The Mix Tape
1. “Back Door Man”–Howlin’ Wolf
2. “Don’t Answer the Door”–B.B. King
3. “Next Door Neighbor Blues”–Gary Clark
4. “Howlin’ at Your Door” –Fiona Boyes
5. “Don’t Turn Me From Your Door”– John Lee Hooker
6. “Knockin’ at Your Door”–Bobby Rush
7. “Right Next Door”–Robert Cray
8. “The Hearse is Backed Up to the Door”–Lightnin’ Hopkins
9. “Backdoor Love Affair”–ZZ Top
10. “Back Door Man”–Willie Dixon
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Dose of Dr. Gonzo
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
-Hunter S. Thompson-
