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Christopher Hitchens Has Succumbed To Cancer.
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Even though I am on the opposite side of the issue which is dear to him, I am sorry to hear about his departure! Christopher Hitchens is the ultimate debater. Very eloquent and sharp.
It was listening to him SPEAK that I will miss the most. Very few intellectuals can make the articulation of language sound like music the way he did. It was a true pleasure.
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All minds, daft and great alike, must return to the void at some point. Here's to hoping said energy graces us with its existence in the physical world once again, and soon.
Wow, it doesn't seem half that long.
Nearly every person can be replaced after they're gone - even among the famous.
There are a few exceptions. Hitch stood alone at the top of his profession, and after 5 years, no one has filled the void he left behind.
Nearly every person can be replaced after they're gone - even among the famous.
There are a few exceptions. Hitch stood alone at the top of his profession, and after 5 years, no one has filled the void he left behind.
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I'll bump this observation.
Also add that while I too am "anti-theist" like Hitch, I do think he overstates his case when he denies the Catholic church
any redeeming values. They did it begrudgingly, and haltingly, but the church did in fact help advance science at its own ultimate peril. Hitch never got called disputed on that not-inconsequential contribution to his beloved science.
There's a great six hour long tape of his on youtube, sometimes I saw wood through it all night! and should I wake up, it is always to something compelling
Ten years ago today. People talk about how it’s a shame so and so is gone because he’d have so much to say about what’s going on in the world and he’s top of my list.
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