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Your comments about Hitchens were great! One of my favorite moments when a woman got up, during the Q&A and asked about the book, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and then asked “What does that mean?” Hitchens, in his I assume usual discretion said, “wrong book…next". I bought Hitch 22 and have started it with great anticipation. I was fascinated to hear that he not only is married to a Jewish women but bringing up their child in the Jewish religion and that his mother and grandmother were Jewish.
I really enjoyed reading your comment about Christopher Hitchins. I think one of my favorite moments of the evening was when a woman stood up to ask about the book title, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and asked, “What does that mean?” to which Hitchins responded, “Wrong book…next".
Not sure what the remark “Wrong Book” is all about, but courtesy is always nice.
Lee,
Hitchens was promoting his new book, a memoir, and people kept asking him about his previous book, “God is Not Great.” He wanted to talk about the memoir.
Tom
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Christopher Hitches is dead at 62. Or is he?
by Dan Bloom
When world hero artist Christopher Hitchens died recently, the global
television screens and newspaper headlines proclaimed “Christopher
Hitchens, dead at 62.”
But the way we report deaths on TV and in print papers seems
out-dated, in some way. Why give in to the commercial death business
(as well as the religious death business) and even
use words like death and dies? Why don’t we begin to use a better word
as a marker to mark a man or a woman’s three score and ten here on
Earth?
This blogger made a list of some words that might fit better and he
wonders what you, dear reader, think of them. Perhaps you could add
some words or suggestions in
the comments section here (below) – and not ‘’six feet under'’ but
just a few centimeters below.
So instead of the TV announcers and newspaper headline writers saying
or writing “Christopher Hitchens, dead at 62,” how about saying
something in the future as an alternative such as: “Christopher
Hitchens, transformed at 62″ - ‘Christopher Hitchens, morphed at 62″ -
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–’Christopher Hitchens, sent off at 62″ – ‘Christopher Hitchens,
reintegrated at 62″ – ‘Christopher Hitchens, sayonara’d at 62″ –
‘Christopher Hitchens, atomized at 62″ – ‘Christopher Hitchens,
starlit at 62″ – ‘Christopher Hitchens, energized at 62″ –
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completed at 62″ – ‘Christopher Hitchens, finalized at 62″ –
‘Christopher Hitchens, regurgitated at 62.”
A friend in Canada suggests “Christopher Hitchens, composted at 62.”
And she also suggests “Christopher Hitchens, angelized at 62″ (adding
that Hitch probably would not have liked that one so much, but that he
might have seen the sense of humor involved in such a term).
What other words might fit in the future? Suggestions welcome, pro and con.
And remember this, or at least, this blogger does: ‘’Death be not
proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art
not so!'’
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