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Mortality
by Christopher Hitchens
by Christopher Hitchens
I read this the day after I received it...yesterday. Some of the brilliance had been published elsewhere. Nonetheless, the book, to co-opt his wife's description of her husband, dazzled.
Hitchens brings added meaning to Camus's statement that "the great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death". In his time of "living dyingly" and still on his "'mattress grave'" in his "denatured" state he wrote brilliantly and his voice was, to the end, "perfect".
Hitchens brings added meaning to Camus's statement that "the great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death". In his time of "living dyingly" and still on his "'mattress grave'" in his "denatured" state he wrote brilliantly and his voice was, to the end, "perfect".
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