By Salman Rushdie
On June 8th, 2010, I was “in conversation” with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd Street Y in New York in front of his customary sellout audience, to launch his memoir, Hitch-22. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterwards at a small, celebratory dinner the brilliance continued. A few days later he told me that it was on the morning of the Y event that he had been given the news about his cancer.
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I have the utmost respect and admiration for Christopher hitchens but I have to disagree with him In his statement that one does not battle cancer ,that it is a passive event something that is boring and banal having the poisonous chemo therapeutic drugs pumped through ones veins. To battle the disease is to undergo the treatment prescribed by the doctors and to not merely dismiss the treatment and let nature take its course.
Here's a nice piece on Hitch from Victor Davis Hanson:
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson010412.html
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Hitchens was such a brilliant man and I have great respect for him. He will be missed.
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