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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas :: Thompson Hunter S.
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Duke: I don'tknow.
Att'y: All we were told was, go till you find the American Dream. Take this white
Cadillac and go find the American Dream. It's somewhere in the Las Vegas area.
Lou: That has to be the old…
Att'y:… and it's a silly story to do, but you know, that's we get paid for.
Lou: Are you taking pictures of it, or…
Att'y: No, no-no pictures.
Lou:… or did somebody just send you on a goose chase?
Att'y: It's sort of a wild goose chase, more or less, but personally we're dead serious.
Lou: T has to be the old Psychiatrist's Club, but the only people who hang out there is a bunch of pushers, peddlers, up wners, and all that stuff.
Att'y: May be that's it. Is it a night-time place or is it an all day…
Lou: Oh, honey, this never stops. But it’s not a casino.
Att'y: What kind of place is it?
Lou: It's on Paradise, uh, the old Psychiatrist's Club's on Paradise.
Att'y: Is that what it's called, the old Psychiatrist's Club?
Lou: No, that is what it used to be, but someone bought it… but I didn't hear about it as the American Dream, it was something like, associated with, uh… it's a mental joint, where all the dopers hang out.
Att'y: A mental joint? You mean like a mental hospital?
Lou: No, honey, where all the dope peddlers and all the pushers, everybody hangs out. It's a place where all the kids are potted when they go in, and everything… but it's not called what you said, the American Dream.
Att'y: Do you have any idea what it might be called? Or more or less where it might be located?
Lou: Right off of Paradise and Eastern.
Waitress: But Paradise and Eastern are parallel.
Lou: Yeah, but I know I come off of Eastern, and then I go to Paradise
Waitress: Yeah I know it, but then that would make it off Paradise around the Flamingo, straight up here. I think somebody's handed you a
Att'y: We're staying at the Flamingo. I think this place you're talking about and the way you're describing it, I think that maybe that's it.
Lou: It's not a tourist joint.
Att'y: Well, that's why they sent me. He's the writer: I'm the bodyguard. 'Cause I figure it will be…
Lou: These guys are nuts… these kids are nuts.
Att'y: That's OK.
Waitress: Yeah, they got new laws.
Duke: Twenty-four-hour-a-day violence? Is that what we're saying?
Lou: Exactly. Now here's the Flamingo… Oh, I can't show you this; I can tell you better my way.
Duke: I don'tknow.
Att'y: All we were told was, go till you find the American Dream. Take this white
Cadillac and go find the American Dream. It's somewhere in the Las Vegas area.
Lou: That has to be the old…
Att'y:… and it's a silly story to do, but you know, that's we get paid for.
Lou: Are you taking pictures of it, or…
Att'y: No, no-no pictures.
Lou:… or did somebody just send you on a goose chase?
Att'y: It's sort of a wild goose chase, more or less, but personally we're dead serious.
Lou: T has to be the old Psychiatrist's Club, but the only people who hang out there is a bunch of pushers, peddlers, up wners, and all that stuff.
Att'y: May be that's it. Is it a night-time place or is it an all day…
Lou: Oh, honey, this never stops. But it’s not a casino.
Att'y: What kind of place is it?
Lou: It's on Paradise, uh, the old Psychiatrist's Club's on Paradise.
Att'y: Is that what it's called, the old Psychiatrist's Club?
Lou: No, that is what it used to be, but someone bought it… but I didn't hear about it as the American Dream, it was something like, associated with, uh… it's a mental joint, where all the dopers hang out.
Att'y: A mental joint? You mean like a mental hospital?
Lou: No, honey, where all the dope peddlers and all the pushers, everybody hangs out. It's a place where all the kids are potted when they go in, and everything… but it's not called what you said, the American Dream.
Att'y: Do you have any idea what it might be called? Or more or less where it might be located?
Lou: Right off of Paradise and Eastern.
Waitress: But Paradise and Eastern are parallel.
Lou: Yeah, but I know I come off of Eastern, and then I go to Paradise
Waitress: Yeah I know it, but then that would make it off Paradise around the Flamingo, straight up here. I think somebody's handed you a
Att'y: We're staying at the Flamingo. I think this place you're talking about and the way you're describing it, I think that maybe that's it.
Lou: It's not a tourist joint.
Att'y: Well, that's why they sent me. He's the writer: I'm the bodyguard. 'Cause I figure it will be…
Lou: These guys are nuts… these kids are nuts.
Att'y: That's OK.
Waitress: Yeah, they got new laws.
Duke: Twenty-four-hour-a-day violence? Is that what we're saying?
Lou: Exactly. Now here's the Flamingo… Oh, I can't show you this; I can tell you better my way.