RIP Christopher Hitchens

[Ammianus]

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/ ... s-19492011

Likely his last ever written essay:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/ ... ens-201201



Godspeed Sir. We hardly knew ye

[Azrael]

RIP.

I bet a lot of people that he no longer respected will show up and pretend that they miss the guy, when while he was living they we're waiting for him to drop.

[Demon of Undoing]

A great loss to the world of the written word.

The next drink I have will be in his honor.

[Colonel Sun]

Condolences.

Reading his obituary, the [attributed] words of Jack London came to mind;

"I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them,

I shall use my time."

[crashtech]

I'll miss his inimitable style. I really though he was gonna beat the big C.

[Hoosiernorm]

Wonder how long it will now take for his notes to be released, usually they are held for a period of time until they have been reviewed by a trusted peer. I wonder yet what is left unsaid by Chris, I don't think that we are done hearing from Mr. Hitchens just yet.

[Tinker]

RIP Christopher Hitchens, you were talented with words, and you used those words to do some horrible things, your words became the justification for the slaughters of many thousands of people the world over. But you made your points well, and were not without insight.

[Sparky]

- a journalist on the Daily Mail.
RIP indeed. It was a pleasure listening to him speak.

[Azrael]

[Sparky]

Perhaps - though self-deprecation is a very British quality.

[Mr. Perfect]

No offense, I never found him interesting.

[Demon of Undoing]

He was a fine champion of personal freedoms, as good as this perod has ( had). Worth listening.

[amos]

i joined him and a few others for a cocktail once after he appeared at the boston public library to make his case that kissinger is a war criminal.....he proved that lushes have the sharpest wits....and we made a pair of lushes with our whiskeys.....now go nourish the worms.....you sir finally convinced me that that's all there is

(too me, his ouvre recalled orwell's "homage to catalonia")

[Ibrahim]

Most apt thing I saw written about his death was on Twitter, of all places:

"You can't win. Hitchens had integrity, wit, loved Orwell, and still flunked the moral test of his generation and died a drunken jingoist."

[the glowing carp]

A untimely losss of a great voice.

[Azrael]

[Azrael]