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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      18. There's two things about Hitchens: he was a very fine literary critic & his prose had gusto & color (unlike most American journalism)

      7 replies 4 retweets 74 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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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

      2 replies 6 retweets 49 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      20. "But he was one of those modernists who could only have been formed by an observance of tradition...."

      1 reply 3 retweets 14 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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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

      3 replies 2 retweets 40 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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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.

      4 replies 7 retweets 45 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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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.

      3 replies 13 retweets 74 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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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.

      3 replies 9 retweets 47 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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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.

      7 replies 5 retweets 42 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Sep 2016
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      26. The habit of creating saints, of venerating people beyond what the evidence can bear, is not exclusive to religious believers.

      11 replies 65 retweets 178 likes
    10. uberfeminist‏ @uberfeminist 5 Sep 2016
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Wow so basically Hitchens thinks Orwell is awesome therefore Hitchens is the Catholic church. And this started about Teresa! @heerjeet

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2016
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      Hitchens wrote a hagiography of Orwell that tried to treat him as nearly flawless. That's similar to worship of saints.

      11:40 AM - 5 Sep 2016
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        2. uberfeminist‏ @uberfeminist 5 Sep 2016
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          did you miss the part about two literal miracles?

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Sep 2016
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          Hitchens belief that Iraq war would lead to democracy was magical thinking on par with anything religious believers claim.

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        1. Robert Waldmann‏ @robertwaldmann 5 Sep 2016
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          hagiography n: the writing of the lives of yhe saints does tend to be similar to hagiography

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        1. Robert Waldmann‏ @robertwaldmann 5 Sep 2016
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          Hitchins himself could not love Orwell more than I do, but oh, what a hatchet job I could write

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