Naturally.
After Ernest Hemingway killed himself in 1961, stories abounded regarding the myth and legend of the Nobel Laureate, a myth that Hunter S. Thompson looked to further by writing a story for the National Observer in 1964.
As Thompson's wife, Anita, now tells the CBC, Hunter drove out to Ketchum to check out Hemingway's famous estate--only to find no one was there. The property was empty. Yet, hanging above a doorway was a pair of large elk antlers that Hemingway used as decoration. Being alone, Thompson simply stole them and took them home.
"[Hunter] made such a long journey to go and visit, and he just couldn't help himself," Anita Thompson told the CBC. "When he would talk about it, he was embarrassed. Because Hunter is not a thief — he's just so caught up in the moment."
Exactly. Which one of us didn't see something we really wanted at someone else's house, got caught up in the moment, and headed home with a lovely china set or a Cuisinart that could really pull our own kitchen together?
Maybe a conscience won out, or maybe it's because garish elk antlers really aren't so fashionable these days, but Anita Thompson contacted a local Ketchum library that oversees the Hemingway property to set up returning the antlers. After fifty-two years, the doorway will be adorned once again.
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