Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 13, 2017
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Transcript:
Canada's Hudson Bay region actually has less gravity pulling on it than other parts of the world! No, no... Ha ha ha... No!! Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers! Hunter S Thompson typed the novel The Great Gatsby to feel what it was like to write like F Scott Fitzgerald.
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Templo S.U.D. over 7 years ago
Um… I don’t know how to comment on the Hudson Bay bit.
paulsub63 over 7 years ago
The earth is thinner there according to the expanding earth theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iIWYYNkgJQ
therese_callahan2002 over 7 years ago
I can just picture him typing “David Copperfield,” “War And Peace,” and “Crime And Punishment.”
davidweinstock over 7 years ago
jorge borges wrote a story about someone who did that with one chapter of don quixote, while thompson was still in short beers.
Neo Stryder over 7 years ago
I wonder why the less gravity, maybe that region is hollow inside.
CeeJay over 7 years ago
The Great Gatsby. The most overrated American novel ever!
comixbomix over 7 years ago
That sounds so Pteronotactile…(proving dinosaurs turned into birds?)
Max Starman Jones over 7 years ago
Hunter S Thompson needed a real job, it appears.
JastMe over 7 years ago
Fitzgerald’s Gatsby, and Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms – but didn’t write that way.
EricS.Harris over 3 years ago
I’m a little puzzled by the Hunter S. Thompson bit.
Someone once described bad unsolicited TV scripts by amateurs as “creative typing”. (It might have been unsolicited short fiction. It’s been a while since I read that description.)
What HST did was like that, only without the creativity.