what i wish to know is what makes old hitch such an authority on literature? other than a sneering attitude and excessive verbiage... has the guy written anything literary (i mean stuff that goes beyond the "current affairs" section of barnes & noble)?
i remember reading an atlantic monthly (now there's a match made in stuffy verbal diarrhea heaven) piece by him in which he gleefully quoted a wodehouse conversation with evelyn waugh ridiculing maugham. i love my wodehouse as much as the next guy, for the humour value, but come on! i don't need his opinion any more than hitch's on somerset maugham! or on the relevance of george orwell, for that matter!
--ravi