The desperate assumption that somebody or at least some force is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.

10 seconds sound clip from the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:51:29 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- He crashed around America, selling consciousness expansion without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all those people who took him seriously.

- All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy peace and understanding for three bucks a hit.

- But their loss and failure is ours too.

- What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create.

- A generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the acid culture:

- The desperate assumption that somebody or at least some force is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.

- There was only one road back to L.A. U.S. Interstate 15.

- Just a flat out high-speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo.

- Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, straight into frantic oblivion safety, obscurity.

- Just another freak in the freak kingdom.

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