My prayer has evidently worked to a degree. Hitchens had a piece in Slate today.
The piece in The Observer pays more interest in Hitchens’s psychology than he has ever been bothered about (Hitchens is not introspective):-
He’s have hard words to say about “credence” when The Observer columnist meant “credibility”.
There’s a wonderful mixed metaphor in the comments from zoetroped:-
Hitchens is suffering from oesophageal, not testicular, cancer, zoetroped. You’ve got it quite the wrong way round.
A piece here about Christians regarding this illness as divine retribution:-
I can imagine the form Hitchens’s response will take, should he read that kind of thing. He can still operate a keyboard, so at least two of his fingers must be working.
The piece in The Observer pays more interest in Hitchens’s psychology than he has ever been bothered about (Hitchens is not introspective):-
A common conclusion, and one even reached by his wife, Carol Blue, is that it all stems from his postwar upbringing. His father was a commander in the Royal Navy who had a "good war", and the suggestion is that living through a period of extended peacetime in the west, Hitchens felt he had failed to test himself as his father had.
In a recent interview, Hitchens appeared to lend some credence to this judgment. "One of the things I've realised, writing the book [Hitch 22]," he said, "is that it has to be true." Whatever their provenance, physical and moral courage are qualities that Hitchens has never lacked. Nor is he likely to be in want of them now.
He’s have hard words to say about “credence” when The Observer columnist meant “credibility”.
There’s a wonderful mixed metaphor in the comments from zoetroped:-
Love him or hate him, what a writer, and at least he has the balls not to rest on the cushion of his laurels.
Hitchens is suffering from oesophageal, not testicular, cancer, zoetroped. You’ve got it quite the wrong way round.
A piece here about Christians regarding this illness as divine retribution:-
Naturally it isn't easy for Christians to come straight out and say "serves you right". Virtually all of them can see that might make God look a bit small-minded. The posting on a blog called Associates for Biblical Research is fairly typical of the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger tone adopted by most. "It is not our place as Christians to say the specific reasons why Mr Hitchens has contracted this disease", writes Henry B Smith Jr. "We only know that God often uses illness as a means to bring people to repentance and faith. We can only hope Mr Hitchens responds."
I can imagine the form Hitchens’s response will take, should he read that kind of thing. He can still operate a keyboard, so at least two of his fingers must be working.
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