Friday, December 16, 2011

A Rabbi and Hitchens Walk Into a Bar?

As every Hitch fan knows, it was not the range of reading alone but the astonishing recall that made Hitchens so formidable in combat. You could catch him out?he was often careless with details, especially about religion?but supplementary citations would cascade, overwhelming the solitary crumb of history you had industriously unearthed for the moment.? I made the mistake once of mentioning that Evelyn Waugh?great writer, nasty man?had said that his Catholicism made him better than he would otherwise have been.? I was then buried under an avalanche of Waugh?his misdeeds, his pronouncements, the depradations of Catholicism throughout the centuries culminating in his vile Waughness.? Afterward, ruefully, I said, ?I will never give you the gift of Waugh again.? He smiled, because it didn?t matter.? I could have said something about !Kung culinary habits and been similarly assailed by his travels in the Kalahari and how he helped the !Kung salt their meat. ??????

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=c9f0555ea9d4fa961574d1e6b05cb5de

ndamukong suh ndamukong suh aptera aptera facebook ipo facebook ipo national defense authorization act

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.