Hugh Hewitt posts an email sent to him following "Unanswerable Prayers".
Christopher Hitchens in his column in the new Vanity Fair dismisses those who have been praying for him. He adds that on September 20th, somehow designated "Pray for Hitchens Day", no one should bother to "trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries. Unless, of course, it makes you feel better". He is quoting from Shakespeare's Sonnet # 29.
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Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.

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September 6, 2010Posted by Tom at 07:54
Labels: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hugh Hewitt, Unanswerable Prayers
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3 comments:
"If you've got cancer, go fucking die!" - GG Allin
What's more pathetic than a junkie who eats his own shit in public?
An internet stalker who quotes the guy.
An internet stalker who quotes the guy.
"Eat my diarrhea!"
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