What do I know about this man off the top of my head (no joke intended) without refreshing my memory via google...an infamous old junkie; an 'icon' of the counter culture, though I saw a photo of him once wearing what looked like a £3000 Savile Row suit, so not as short of a bob or two as most counter culturalists.
He did a William Tell number on his wife whilst wrecked, put an apple on her head, shot at it with a revolver, missed & killed her. That was in Mexico. I don't know what happened to him as a consequence.
It seems to me that he could be considered a personification of the betrayal of human dreams, all by himself, no need to drag the rest of America down there with him.
