From Freedom to Prison Prompt #3, Chapter #10

In this chapter, the narrator is leaving the hotel, and not just leaving, but fleeing. He thinks about the numerous room service bills he must pay, not to mention the room bill, and realizes he can't pay it off. He tells the valet to get his car and begins walking towards it. As he approaches the car, he hears a clerk calling after him. Thoughts of all the great books that have been written in prison come to mind. The clerk catches up to him and informs him of a telegram that had been sent to him. The clerk says he had been calling the narrators room and looking for him. "I felt dizzy. It was too much to absorb all at once. From freedom, to prison, and then back to freedom again-all in thirty seconds." (Thompson 75) The narrator started going through all the scenarios of prison in his head as the clerk was approaching him. He says the warden would recognize him because he once interviewed him for the New York Times. In the telegram, it says there is a room ready at the Flamingo Hotel and to cover the National Conference of District Attorneys. They are having a four-day seminar on illegal narcotics. Noticing the irony of the situation, the narrator decides to follow his attorneys request and cover the seminar after planning on escaping Las Vegas.