Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas   ::   Thompson Hunter S.

The transcription begins somewhere on the Northeast out of Las Vegas - zooming along Paradise Road in the White Whale…»

Att’y: Boulder City is to the right. Is that a town?

Duke: Yeah

Att’y: Let’s go to Boulder City.

Duke: All right. Let’s get some coffee somewhere…

Att'y: Right up here, Terry's Taco Stand, USA. I could go for a taco. Five for a buck.

Duke: Sounds horrible. I'd rather go somewhere where's there's one for 5O cents.

Att'y: No… this might be the last chance we get for tacos.

Duke:… I need some coffee.

Att'y: I want tacos

Duke: Five for a buck, that's like… five hamburgers for a buck.

Att'y: No… don't judge a taco by its price.

Duke: You think you might make a deal?

Att'y: I might. There's a hamburger for 29 cents. Tacos are 29 cents. It's just a cheap place, that's all.

Duke: Go bargain with them…

[Only garbled sounds here.-Ed.]

Att'y:… Hello.

Waitress: May I help you?

Att'y: Yeah, you have tacos here? Are they Mexican tacos or just regular tacos? I mean, do you have chili in them and things like that?

Waitress: We have cheese and lettuce, and we have sauce, you know, put on them.

Att'y: I mean do you guarantee that they are authentic Mexican tacos?

Waitress:… I don't know. Hey Lou, do we have authentic Mexican tacos?

Woman's voice from kitchen: What?

Waitress: Authentic Mexican tacos.

Lou: We have tacos. I don't know how Mexican they are.

Att'y: Yeah, well, I just want to make sure I get what I'm paying for. 'Cause they're five for a dollar? I'll take five of them.

Duke: Taco burger, what's that?

(Sound. of diesel engine truck. -Ed.]

Att'y: That's a hamburger. with a taco in the middle.

Duke: A taco on a bun.

Att'y: I betcha your tacos are just hamburgers with a shell sad of a bun.

Waitress: I don't know

Att'y: You just started working here?

Waitress: Today.

Att'y: I thought so, I've never saw you here before. You go school around here?

Waitress: No, I don't go to school.

Duke: Oh? Why not? Are you sick?

Att'y: Never mind that. We came here for tacos.

[Pause.]

Att'y: As your attorney I advise you to get the chiliburger. a hamburger with chili on it.

Duke: That's too heavy for me.

Att'y: Then I advise you to get a taco burger, try that one.

Duke:… the taco has meat in it. I'll try that one. And coffee now. Right now.