Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Splash du Jour: Wednesday

Ian McEwan, speaking of the loss of his friend, Christopher Hitchens:
 "It's very… desolate. It really does feel empty. He was the one of us who seemed to embrace all of literature; as time goes by, I don't think people will associate him with his taking an unusual line on Iraq. They will connect him with his brilliant essays on writers: Chesterton, Kipling, Wodehouse. The appetite. The conversations. I really do miss them. Martin [Amis] and I regularly check in with each other in the post-Hitch desert."


Have a great Wednesday!
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1 comment:

Sim Carter said...

Hmmm - those might be great links anonymous left in the comment section but I ain't gonna touch them!