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Andrew Sullivan went to Christopher Hitchens's memorial service yesterday.
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And then his last words. As he lay dying, he asked for a pen and paper and tried to write on it. After a while, he finished, held it up, looked at it and saw that it was an illegible assemblage of scribbled, meaningless hieroglyphics. "What's the use?" he said to Steve Wasserman. Then he dozed a little, and then roused himself and uttered a couple of words that were close to inaudible. Steve asked him to repeat them. There were two:
"Capitalism."
"Downfall."
In his end was his beginning.
-- Andrew Sullivan
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It may be recalled that Hitch was a pretty good lefty in his youth. I remember when he was happy to bow down before Noam Chomsky. However, I thought that Brian Lamb got Hitch to renounce socialism on C-SPAN, but maybe I misremember. It was after he became a hawk on the Iraq war, and I could have let that over-color all his politics. Still, it is difficult to imagine him being happy as a true equal. Aristocracy and privilege sat on him well, a giant among men. Maybe he just got dreamy again at the end.
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And then his last words. As he lay dying, he asked for a pen and paper and tried to write on it. After a while, he finished, held it up, looked at it and saw that it was an illegible assemblage of scribbled, meaningless hieroglyphics. "What's the use?" he said to Steve Wasserman. Then he dozed a little, and then roused himself and uttered a couple of words that were close to inaudible. Steve asked him to repeat them. There were two:
"Capitalism."
"Downfall."
In his end was his beginning.
-- Andrew Sullivan
_ _ _
It may be recalled that Hitch was a pretty good lefty in his youth. I remember when he was happy to bow down before Noam Chomsky. However, I thought that Brian Lamb got Hitch to renounce socialism on C-SPAN, but maybe I misremember. It was after he became a hawk on the Iraq war, and I could have let that over-color all his politics. Still, it is difficult to imagine him being happy as a true equal. Aristocracy and privilege sat on him well, a giant among men. Maybe he just got dreamy again at the end.
