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Merged Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

I grieve.

Did I dream this belief
Or did I believe this dream
How will I find relief
I grieve. --Peter Gabriel

 
Slate had a nice article:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...n_sharing_a_tiny_office_with_hitchens_.2.html

I met Hitchens at TAM III and at a Penn & Teller show where we had a nice conversation. At TAM III he seemed positively disappointed that I had never heard of the Mother Teresa controversy and that I didn't understand what a wretched individual she was. For a long time, I decided not to mention in public that he had been quite drunk when I met him at the Penn & Teller show. But as time has gone on I realized that I wasn't exactly hiding a state secret that Hitchens drank a bit. He seemed to be good friends with the Jillettes. Penn's wife came out and took him back with her. As an aside she seemed like a very nice person from our brief meeting.
 
davefoc said:
Slate had a nice article:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...n_sharing_a_tiny_office_with_hitchens_.2.html
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Interesting that his article on Mother Theresa is now the 2nd most read article on Slate.. :)

(It's also the 3rd most shared.)
 
His final memoirs will be published in the New Year.

A final memoir by the late author and polemicist Christopher Hitchens will be released early next year, his publisher said this morning.

Hitchens, who died yesterday aged 62, wrote a series of columns for Vanity Fair about his battle with oesophageal cancer, chronicling how he moved "from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady".

The forthcoming memoir will be based on the essays, said Atlantic Books, and will be called Mortality. The book had been planned for some time, said a spokesperson.
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He transformed my life. I came across his work at an extremely critical turning point in my life and he helped me tremendously. I owe much of my health and happiness to the way this man maneuvered his brain, pen and voice box. I loved him. I also feel like I have lost a parent. I'm consoled by the fact that many millions of people carry on his way of being. I also had the chance to thank him for his great work.

When I joined this forum my avatar was a glass of scotch and my title "Drink-sodden popinjay".

He made me proud to be human.
 
The Fallen Serpent said:
The Onion gives Hitchens a proper obituary.
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Er, it's just a headline and a photo. :-S
Wowbagger said:
I was never a fan of Christopher Hitchens.

But, I would like to share what I think is one of boldest, bravest, and most interesting things he's ever done: Waterboarding.



I believe him that it was torture.
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"The president allows waterboarding.

Are you a bad enough writer to be subjected to waterboarding yourself?"

RIP Hitchens. You're as Hunter S. Thompson now. An immortal legend.
 
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At least he avoided Christmas:

Hitch said:
As in such dismal banana republics, the dreary, sinister thing is that the official propaganda is inescapable. You go to a train station or an airport, and the image and the music of the Dear Leader are everywhere. You go to a more private place, such as a doctor's office or a store or a restaurant, and the identical tinny, maddening, repetitive ululations are to be heard. So, unless you are fortunate, are the same cheap and mass-produced images and pictures, from snowmen to cribs to reindeer.
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None other.
 
On the second day of Hitchmas my true love gave to me: two bottles of whiskey...
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On the third day of Hitchmas, my true love gave to me: three bottles of whiskey.
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Is it going to be whiskey every day, TubbaBlubba? Can't we give the man cigarettes sometimes?
 
Very sad day here - just arrived and turned on the computer to this news. It was obviously only a matter of time.

Just cracked open a nice little Napa Cab to reminisce.
 
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