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3 Responses to “ Don’t mourn the Hitch. ”

1. # 1 ros Says:
   December 16th, 2011 at 23:48

   The raggedy condition of “The Portable Atheist” in NBS, is a simple testament that Christopher Hitchens has left the world with a multitude of noetic children.

   For showing the world/reality for what it is and for “living dyingly”. Hats off and a glass of Perrier & Mr. Walker to you Mr. Hitchens.

   A fitting tribute: Closing statement from the Hitch & Dembski debate.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HocoXyWFJ8

2. # 2 diaw Says:
   December 17th, 2011 at 13:15

   One of the few writers who is admired by the Left and the Right.

3. # 3 Dr. Feelgood Says:
   December 17th, 2011 at 15:55

   Well, it was expected but I was still shocked. I was reading the Book Review of the Times and saw the news on the side.

   Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic wrote this (and I completely concur…wish I had it, too):

   ‘Has the theory of the solar system been advanced by graceful manners and conversational tact?’–George Eliot

   ‘If I can’t fuck up Ann Coulter before lunch then I shouldn’t be in this business.’
   –Christopher Hitchens

   I think this says so much:

   [He also professed to have no regrets for a lifetime of heavy smoking and drinking. “Writing is what’s important to me, and anything that helps me do that — or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation — is worth it to me,” he told Charlie Rose in a television interview in 2010, adding that it was “impossible for me to imagine having my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle.”]

   I highlight that because so few people achieve that sense of clarity of purpose. I think once you have that, the prospect of death–and even the prospect of great vast empty–becomes an easier proposition.

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   Thank you, Hitch.

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