[lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Sat Jul 7 13:51:11 PDT 2007


On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 18:59 +0000, Carl Remick wrote:


> >
> >... Christopher Hitchens, who
> >looked set to become the George Orwell de nos jours, is likely to be
> >remembered as our Evelyn Waugh ...
>
> Great. May they share the same ending ;-)
>
> -------------------------------------------
> "According to Uncle John's Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader, here are
> some people who died in the bathroom: ... Evelyn Waugh, one of the greatest
> English novelists of the 20th century ... [who] had just returned from
> Easter Mass.

No! No! You don't want Hitch to die in a state of *grace*, do you?



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