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Originally Posted by Cowperson

David Frum with a pleasing, anecdotal remembrance of his relationship with his good friend Hitchens. An entertaining read.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/...moral-clarity/

Cowperson

Thanks Cow...brilliant story

Love these parts...

Hitchens was not one of those romantics who fetishized “dialogue.” Far from suffering fools gladly, he delighted in making fools suffer. When he heard that another friend, a professor, had a habit of seducing female students in his writing seminars, he shook his head pityingly. “It’s not worth it. Afterward, you have to read their short stories.”

One sometimes hears of people who try to model their writing or their persona on Christopher Hitchens’ example. The results are usually absurd and sometimes perverse. Christopher did not offer a model of what to think. He offered a model of how to think – and how to live. Fully. Fearlessly. Joyously. And then, alas too soon, of how to die: without bluster but without flinching, boldly writing until the fingers moved no more.
National Post