Included is a link to a long passage from writer Hunter S Thompson, written in the final year of the 1960s. It featured in his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and is a fitting bookend to Hofmann’s Bicycle Day. The passage’s last lines are a stunning encapsulation of what it must have felt at the end of that zeitgeist, both mournful at its closure and its illusions and failures, yet still joyful at having been part of it.

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