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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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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