> no anti-imperialist was seduced by the guy's prose style
> into changing his or her mind.
That's absolutely true. The fury people felt at him was disproportionate to his actual effectiveness, which seems to me like a good reason for leaving him off the list of the real monsters -- the Kissingers, the Clintons -- who deserve to have their graves pissed upon, and the fresher the better. Not to mention the sooner the better.
> Some people like me, who hated his
> political turn over the last 10 years, felt personal sorrow at his
> death, but even more sorrow over what happened to the better Hitchens
> who'd died ten years earlier.
It's different when you know the guy personally. Most of us didn't, so the public Hitch is all we can respond to.
> Evidently I'm not the only Palladio
> working in straw.
Indeed not. But you're the best.
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