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'''''Mistah Leary - He Dead''''' is a [[chapbook]] written by [[United States|American]] [[author]] and [[journalist]] [[Hunter S. Thompson]] and published by the X-Ray Book Co. in 1997. |
'''''Mistah Leary - He Dead''''' is a [[chapbook]] written by [[United States|American]] [[author]] and [[journalist]] [[Hunter S. Thompson]] and published by the X-Ray Book Co. in 1997. |
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The book serves as an [[eulogy]] for [[Timothy Leary]] and contains an obituary Thompson wrote for |
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him that first appeared in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' Magazine. The book also contains a simulated [[LSD|blotter sheet]] on which Dr. Leary's likeness is printed and other Leary-related artifacts. |
him that first appeared in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' Magazine. The book also contains a simulated [[LSD|blotter sheet]] on which Dr. Leary's likeness is printed and other Leary-related artifacts. |
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Revision as of 18:30, 20 July 2008
Mistah Leary - He Dead is a chapbook written by American author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson and published by the X-Ray Book Co. in 1997.
The book serves as an eulogy for Timothy Leary and contains an obituary Thompson wrote for him that first appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine. The book also contains a simulated blotter sheet on which Dr. Leary's likeness is printed and other Leary-related artifacts.
The book was hand-sewn and hand-printed at The New Orleans School of GlassWorks and Printmaking Studio, with a print run of only 300 hand-numbered copies. In addition, 26 special lettered copies were also produced.
The title is a play off of "Mistah Kurtz, he dead," the epitaph for Joseph Conrad's mining official gone native in Heart of Darkness. It was also the epigraph for T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men".
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