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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair

http://salmanrushdie1.tumblr.com/post/15369634397/christopher-hitchens-vanity-fair-feb-2012

Some brilliant excerpts:

"...he had been so publicly magnificent on such a privately dreadful day. He had shown more than stoicism. He had flung laughter and intelligence into the face of death."

"...our catechism of failures..."

"... being himself as he had always wished to be, the Hitch mighty and ample amongst the ones he loved, and not the diminishing Hitch having the life slowly squeezed out of him by the Destroyer of Days."