17. And yet, and yet, despite all his flaws, I'm not ready to dismiss Hitchens to the ash-heap of the over-rated.
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18. There's two things about Hitchens: he was a very fine literary critic & his prose had gusto & color (unlike most American journalism)
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19. In terms of prose consider his portrait of Tom Driberg, who was a high church Anglican & gay.pic.twitter.com/TCJpAjc9LK
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20. "But he was one of those modernists who could only have been formed by an observance of tradition...."
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21. "...he needed an anchor as much as he wanted a sailor." Such a lovely, resonant phrase, evocative of an entire sensibility & way of life
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22. Hitchens's style -- allusive, sly, debonair -- isn't normally the prose one finds in the Washington Post, NY Times or (cheap shot) Vox.
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23. The worst thing one could do with Hitchens (which I think some of his fans do in fact do) is to treat him as a saint.
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24. There's a certain type of Hitchens fan who treats his words as holy, who can't abide the thought that the great man was ever wrong.
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25. Hitchens himself canonized Orwell in that way. One problem with Hitchens's Orwell book is he can't admit any serious fault in Orwell.
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Not knowing much about Orwell personally I'd love to know what the faults are
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Well, he informed on people to British intelligence.
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