Sentience in a seed-pod

I'm always the last one to know. This is because I don't read newspapers or watch the news. Somehow I'll hear about the big stuff, like 500 gazillion people dying in a freak sewing accident. I'll be flicking past CNN or Mark will mention it or something. But the little things - the important things - I'm always last to know. I found out on Friday that Hunter S. Thompson killed himself last Sunday.

Now, I wasn't really a fan. I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and liked it, but I wasn't rushing out to buy the rest of his stuff. But the thing is, he was an original thinker, which is the most valuable thing in the world. All the creativity, all the next best things come from people thinking at a tangent. They derail other people's thoughts and there's an acceleration of synaptic connections - a tide of the new wave.

So I'm sorry he's gone.