Writer’s block

ROBERT WELLER’S article on Hunter S Thompson (Irish Examiner, February 22) states that Richard Nixon once said the writer represented “that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character.”

Writer’s block
Fri, 04 Mar, 2005 - 00:00

In fact, Thompson wrote that about Nixon, in his infamous obituary of the former president.

Lorraine Glendenning

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