Friday, December 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens, RIP



















Fare-thee-well, Christopher Hitchens, always a joy to see in action, to read, to often disagree with. My favorite recent quip of his that springs to mind: "Cheap booze is a false economy" (Hitch-22, 2010).

Gore Vidal landed the last good shot in their back-and-forth quibbling: "Hitchens identified himself for many years as the heir to me. Unfortunately, for him, I didn't die" (2009). A salute to them both.

Today's Rune: Protection.

3 comments:

jodi said...

Erik, very scary. As we all know, life is too short to drink cheap booze. Currently I am very thirsty! Enjoy your pre Christmas week!

Charles Gramlich said...

Definitely an intersting guy.

ivan@creativewriting.ca said...

Both Vidal and Hitchens good writers.

But atheists.

Must be my inhuman sense of humour, but I imagine a final scoreboard:

God..............100 per cent.

Vidal and Hitchens......boo all!