dean_a_jones
Joined: 03 Jul 2009
Posts: 1151
Location: Wuhan, China
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 Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 6:00 pm Post subject: A human passes |
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A bit late, but like it or lump it...
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| He was the embodiment of the public intellectual, a gifted and prolific writer who was also one of the most gifted and prolific talkers in the English-speaking world. Perhaps the saddest part of his slow dying was the moment, last April, when he lost his voice. His actual physical voice, perhaps even more than his writing, was the substance of his cultural presence. In an essay published in Vanity Fair shortly after this happened to him, he wrote of how an editor at The Guardian once gave him what he saw as an invaluable piece of advice�to �write more like the way you talk.� For most of us, this would be extraordinarily poor counsel, but for Hitchens it turned out to be very useful. Anyone who met him was inevitably struck by the sheer authority and eloquence of his speech, his ability to talk in perfectly formed sentences, with audible parentheses and semi-colons, and (seemingly but not actually) premeditated paragraphs.http://www.themillions.com/2011/12/remembering-hitch.html |
A&L Daily has the proper links, at least for a few more days until it's kicked off page one:
http://www.aldaily.com/ |
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