[lbo-talk] My Letter To CH

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That would give him a similar background to Orwell, but Orwell never grovelled. (Well OK, a bit at the end, but it was for a pretty face.)

Joanna

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On Dec 20, 2011, at 2:30 PM, // ravi wrote:


> Hitchens was a toff, a Lord. And the English-speaking world, it seems, still likes to love a Lord.

As more than one person has pointed out, he was from the "lower upper middle class" - he wasn't a lord. Thus the social climbing. A real aristocrat, like Cockburn, doesn't need to do all that climbing, and so can sit in Petrolia with a cockatiel on his shoulder. 

Doug
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