#hitch 22

[cinemajunkie70]

Remembering Christopher Hitchens on his Birthday!

[saidanne]

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[religionisbs]

[schasem]

I always take it for granted that sexual moralizing by public figures is a sign of hypocrisy or worse, and most usually a desire to preform the very act that is being condemned. So whenever I hear some bigmouth in the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.

Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22

[fuckyeahchristopherhitchens]

Christopher Hitchens, 1968

[saidtheboytothegirl]

Christopher Hitchens: Why Women Still Aren't Funny. -- Vanity Fair

[scriniumplenum]

Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens

This is Hitchens’s memoir and, like other books of his that I have read, it is very well written. His style is just intricate enough to keep you interested in the flow of the language, without being so difficult that you have to keep re-reading. It is very much a reflection of the times of his life and his references seem very familiar to people of, well, about my age. Quotes from The Waste Land, ruminations on the enduring impact of the Second World War on the British psyche, stories of political commitment to left wing causes and rethinking them in middle age. But he is intellectually rigorous and he has integrity. He is occasionally prolix in this book and it could probably have done with some more editing. I enjoyed reading it but sometimes I had to swallow hard before picking it up.

[saidtheboytothegirl]

Christopher Hitchens.

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Thinking of you, dear friend.