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Each place setting at the party has an engraved Zippo lighter with a Christopher Hitchens quote..
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A commemorative cigarette lighter? Isn't that a little tactless?
Mr. Hitchens was not one to tip-toe anxiously around words in order to make sure no far-fetched connections can be made between random words and circumstances regarding a person's passing. A well-chosen quote put on a cigarette lighter and put at each place setting at their party is funny and unexpected, while the quote itself is very boldly chosen since several employees probably are religious and the quote is one of those directed not at fundamentalists but at the actual concept of faith.
I say it's cool stuff and raise my glass.
The quotation can be as apposite as you like but, given that Hitch smoked himself to death, I still think that's it's a little crass to engrave it on a cigarette lighter.
What was even tagentally "religious" about that quote.
Hitch was never hypocritical about his vices, or what they cost (and gave) him. The tribute lighter was in the best of taste, very appropriate - and I really wish I had one of them.
Who is paying you Keith? xD
poor afterthough, rather nothin than that..bad taste.
To glorify booze and cigarettes for Hitch's creative contributions to the world is like glorifying the slavemaster for the slave's masterpieces.
def bad taste - absolutely no class of all. and whether we like it or not hitchens class. a junky lighter with one of his less infamous one liners on it. some people have world changing books in them. its an insult to them. may be hitchens didnt want this ingraved in metal. he enjoyed the idea of wit but alot not to be taken that seriously. i mean the man was one of the most wonderful outthere intellectuals and humanists of our time. a f..king zippo* how u get it so wrong carter,i wouldnt want one of them if u paid me...i have more respect.
What a great intellectual. There can never be anyone like Mr. hitchens.
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