The Irony is Killing Me Prompt #12, Chapter #13

In this chapter, the narrator stops to pick up more alcohol and ether. While in the parking lot, he picks up a newspaper and sees the headline, "Surgery Uncertain After Eyes Removed". It is an article about a 25 year old who, "pulled out his eyes while suffering the effects of a drug overdose in a jail cell." (Thompson 101) This is not the first 3rd party drug reference in the book. The narrator just covered a seminar about illegal narcotics. The entire book, the narrator is high on all kinds of drugs. I love the irony in putting things like this in. At the beginning of the book, the narrator is reading a newspaper and all the headlines are about drug tragedies. Thompson brilliantly uses this irony to enhance to book and show just how messed up the narrator is. The narrator is exposed multiple times references like this, yet his drug consumption does not slow down at all. We have had 3 or 4 encounters with this kind of irony by this point in the book, and I would not ask for any more. They are timed perfectly, at times when the narrator is in deep thought about which path to chose.