But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world, whatever it meant.
14 seconds sound clip from the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:55:47 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- With a bit of luck his life was ruined forever...
- Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas.
- Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the kind of peak that never comes again.
- San Francisco in the middle '60s was a very special time and place to be a part of...
- There was madness in any direction - at any hour.
- You could strike sparks anywhere.
- There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.
- And that, I think, was the handle.
- That sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil.
[...]