By Peter Robinson
"Dinner this evening--or, rather, since it has just gone midnight, yesterday evening--with the great historian Robert Conquest and the journalist provocateur Christopher Hitchens. Christopher looked better than he has in recent photographs in Vanity Fair, and he proved utterly himself, talking about books, politics, and history for nearly three hours. I offer it as a sign of his sweet indomitability that Hitch closed the evening by reciting, from memory, this poem:
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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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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Baruch Spinoza
George Orwell
Bertrand Russell
Leon Trotsky
Rosa Luxemburg
Socrates
Christopher Hitchens, Hale
January 1, 2011Posted by Tom at 06:55
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If anyone wants to see him reciting this poem, he does it here: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ForChi. Scroll to 52:44.
...yes, I'm just a tad obsessed.
Thank you for the link! I'm two tads obsessed.
tangs , im graitful that your obsessed, so am i, he is a grait man.
and the poetry was werry enjoyab!-)
thank you for the link , very cool
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