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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. :) Very good way to mark your 1000th post. I think most of
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 05:59 PM
Oct 2019

it might overlap a fair amount with those many of us might make.

I confess I once paid full retail (!) for a Hitchins book and then gave it away in irritation without after the first few chapters. Even though I was passionate on the subject myself, in his direction, there was too much "pricking" social critic and too little philosopher for me. But hey, full overlap would be strange.

In honor of Mr. Hitchins, who will always be with us,

For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going. If you don't let it get out of hand, it can be canalized into writing. In this country where people love to be nonjudgmental when they can be, which translates as, on the whole, lenient, there are an awful lot of bubble reputations floating around that one wouldn't be doing one's job if one didn't itch to prick.

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