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I'm a couple days late, but on 13 April, Hitch would've been 71 years old.
ITT: some good old fashioned intellectual exchanges from my favourite literary critic and historical essayist.
-encyclopedic knowledge of western literature
-astounding understanding of 20th century history
-lived the peak /lit/ life: smoking, drinking, foreign correspondence, best friends with acclaimed novelists, a feared figure on the public debate scene, and hosted intelligent parties in his Washington flat over the years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIVEsa2g4ag

What a legend. RIP Hitch. My man is quite the reader.

>> No.15110098

>>15109926
I hate those type of bookshelves

>> No.15110102

>>15110098
They have gaps which allow you to handled <10 books at a time to find what you're looking for.

>> No.15110110

>>15109926
>best friends with acclaimed novelists,
like?

>> No.15110119

>>15110110
Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis.

>> No.15110121

Careful anon, you might get called a fedora

>> No.15110124

>>15109926
He's in Hell now, so it doesn' matter.

>> No.15110138

>>15110102
I think they look extremely stupid and ugly

>> No.15110145

>>15110121
That's why I make a point of arguing that his atheist writing is the LEAST INTERESTING of his output. He wrote dozens of great political and historical essays, several dozens of great literary criticisms, not to mention the indisputably based /lit/ lifestyle.

>> No.15110150

>>15110138
So stack horizontal. No one's twisting your arm.

>> No.15110160

>>15110124
Don't think your fate will be any different

>> No.15110187
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>>15110150
That's not the issue you chain chewing dunce; I can hate things without owning them. I hate you but I wouldn't own you even if they paid me and no one's twisting my arm to respond to you either, but I hate you all the same. Nigger. I also hate Jews but I could name one I've met. I also hate coleslaw but I don't eat it anymore. And fucking I hate that type of shelf, and I'll never own on but hate it all the same. Nigger!

>> No.15110199

It's a shame he decided to ruin his legacy by supporting the Iraq War and being known as the Celestial North Korea guy

>> No.15110237

>>15110160
I still can be saved. He was doomed.

>> No.15110249

>>15110187
Wow, you're pretty edgy for someone with such die-hard opinions on bookshelves.

>>15110199
He defended it consistently and with an underlying resentment for radical Islam--an opinion which, I should add, was well ahead of its time.

>> No.15110253

>>15110249
>disliking Islam made him ahead of his time
He was a Christian crusader at heart.

>> No.15110255

>>15110249
>an opinion which, I should add, was well ahead of its time.
lol

>> No.15110265

>>15110255
It's like the faggot didn't know about the crusades lol

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>>15110249
Suck my red rocket you dented-headed dimwit. The only edge in question is the dullness of your wit.

>> No.15110272

>>15110253
It was. No one. I repeat: NO ONE was saying that radical Islam was fundamentally incongruent with western Democracy back them. At that time, people were still complete moral relativists.

>>15110265
And what events sparked the crusades?

>>15110266
You got me there.

>> No.15110282

>>15110272
Nigger. Stupid bookshelf loving nigger.

>> No.15110285

>>15110282
kek

>> No.15110300

>>15110282
Haha

>> No.15110323

>>15110253
You dont see the contradiction of supporting islam but shitting on christianity?

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Damn, my titty streamer thread gets deleted (video games) and this book thread (not video games) stays?

>> No.15110368

>>15110357
Wait, how did I get in /lit/? I'll show myself out

>> No.15110375

>>15110119
Ha.

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>>15110357
>>15110368
kek

>> No.15110576

as a wannabe clever young man i had an atheist phase from which i pivoted, first into marxism, and then into literature. All three interests can be, to some extent, traced back to the Hitch.

I can now recognize that his trotskyism was il constructed and, in large part indefensible, even by the standard of Soicialist theory at the time, while his reviews and essays on literature are sometimes embarrassingly wrongheaded ( under his influence i remember first reading Waugh under the assumption that he was an unhappy, repressed closet homosexual, which in retrospect, considering his dairies and his letters, is obviously nonsense)

In retrospect his most useful contribution was his tendency to namedrop or give credit to other thinkers.
And giving me an early feeling for the importance and complexity of history.