Christopher Hitchens on Having Cancer

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I love this guy so much. Always have. Excellent writer and speaker, great defender of truth and reason. Sucks that he's going to die soon :(

I am badly oppressed by a gnawing sense of waste. I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read—if not indeed write—the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? But I understand this sort of non-thinking for what it is: sentimentality and self-pity. Of course my book hit the best-seller list on the day that I received the grimmest of news bulletins, and for that matter the last flight I took as a healthy-feeling person (to a fine, big audience at the Chicago Book Fair) was the one that made me a million-miler on United Airlines, with a lifetime of free upgrades to look forward to. But irony is my business and I just can’t see any ironies here: would it be less poignant to get cancer on the day that my memoirs were remaindered as a box-office turkey, or that I was bounced from a coach-class flight and left on the tarmac? To the dumb question “Why me?” the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?
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Six Parts:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/09/hitchens-201009
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/10/hitchens-201010?currentPage=all
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/11/hitchens-201011?currentPage=all
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/12/hitchens-201012
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/f...tchens-unspoken-truths-201106?currentPage=all
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/01/hitchens-201201
 
 
I was a big fan of his for a long time, but he lost me when he supported the Iraq war. However, I'm sorry that he's dying. He has talent.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
Can you prove it? You demanded proof when I said that Reagan dealt with the Iranians over illegal arms shipments.
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Of course I can prove it, based on the preponderance of evidence. You accused Reagan, however, of a criminal act, and therefore must prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
 
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