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 End of the Hitch |  Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has appeared in Vanity Fair since 1992, when he was named contributing editor. Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic,” Hitchens wrote nearly a year ago in Vanity Fair, but his own final labors were anything but: in the last 12 months, he produced for this magazine a piece on U.S.-Pakistani relations in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, a portrait of Joan Didion, an essay on the Private Eyeretrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a prediction about the future of democracy in Egypt, a meditation on the legacy of progressivism in Wisconsin, and a series of frank, graceful, and exquisitely written essays in which he chronicled the physical and spiritual effects of his disease. At the end, Hitchens was more engaged, relentless, hilarious, observant, and intelligent than just about everyone else—just as he had been for the last four decades. “My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,” he wrote in the June 2011 issue. He died in their presence, too, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. May his 62 years of living, well, so livingly console the many of us who will miss him dearly.
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on December 16 2011 09:38:10
I can't figure out how this damned editor works  |
on December 16 2011 10:10:22
I have at least a couple of times abandoned a halfway written news item because of that editor  |
on December 16 2011 10:16:05
"In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist. "
I'll miss his witty quips..
"God is not great" made quite an impact on me. I'd recommend giving it a read sometime.
The Hich was an atheist until the very end, proving the idiotic saying "there are no atheists in foxholes" false. |
on December 16 2011 10:19:48
Sorry about the editor; its old and not as user friendly as one might want. One problem with it, is that when you copy/paste articles from other websites, you copy not only text, but a bunch of html with it. To edit that in our editor, you have to press the "html" button. |
on December 16 2011 11:22:31
Deathbed =/= Bastogne |
on December 16 2011 11:31:24
True, but close enough. It would be a challenge to disprove your literal interpretation of that saying. |
on December 16 2011 12:47:46
=/= ≠ ≠
@Griz: You know what a foxhole is, right? |
on December 16 2011 14:25:21
Of course. What gave you the idea that I don't know what a foxhole is? |
on December 17 2011 16:18:07
I just think there's a crucial difference between the two. |
on December 17 2011 18:11:14
Not crucial in my opinion. |
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