So long Dude!
Francis Sedgemore, Friday 16 December 2011 at 11:34 UTC
The Dude is no more, and I am without words to describe my reaction to the death of this fellow drink-soaked popinjay. My New English but London resident friend Katy Evans-Bush has done an excellent job of celebrating the life of Christopher Hitchens, and without resorting to the journalistic clichés that you will find in the many obituaries published this morning. During a family visit a few years back, Katy bought for me on request a copy of the US edition of Hitchens’ God is not great, and read it from cover to cover before exchanging it in a Hackney restaurant for the Sterling equivalent of the dollar cover price, and pointing out the book’s shortcomings.
For now I have nothing more to say, save that the world is an immeasurably poorer place for the passing into nothingness of this intellectual slasher and burner who seized life by both balls and lived his 62 years to the full.
RIP Christopher Eric Hitchens (1949-2011)
Feed the writer! 
Friday 16 December 2011 at 11:37 UTC
Francis, I’ve been thinking about that this morning. I’m really glad I read the book. and Hitchens is someone we can ill afford to be without, as has become apparent during his illness – his absence from the public scene has already been causing me consternation in these crazy times.
Friday 16 December 2011 at 11:39 UTC
Cheapskate! :-)
Friday 16 December 2011 at 12:06 UTC
What! Would you rather I’d never read it, and then spent years talking rubbish?
Friday 16 December 2011 at 12:18 UTC
Well I’ve read it, and I’m still talking rubbish.
Friday 16 December 2011 at 13:12 UTC
AH the world is that bit poorer a place. His death and his brother’s continued existence is absolute proof that there is no loving God….
Friday 16 December 2011 at 13:52 UTC
Life’s a bitch, and then there’s Question Time.
Wednesday 4 January 2012 at 12:52 UTC
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