Ten things you didn't know about Christopher Hitchens

[This post was in bad taste, my conscience tells me. #6 is relevant. Perhaps some others. Still, I should have added some Scripture. Like Romans 13:11: "Now it is high time to awake out of sleep..." That is not head-on-pillow sleep, Mr. Hitchens.]


1. He's never really thought through the "anything metaphysical doesn't exist" atheist boilerplate thing.

2. He vaguely resembles Deborah Kerr at a certain point of her life, and one suspects he knows it. And likes it.

3. He's self-admittedly attracted to the fictional character Dorothea Brooke because she is impossibly angelic, and he knows angels are not possible.

4. He's unaware that when he allows his apartment to be photographed showing he stacks his books in piles it gives evidence that he doesn't read them. People who arrange their books like that don't read them, they just look at them. It's too inconvenient to pull one out of the middle of a stack on the spur of the moment. It also messes up the stack.

5. He has to fight, and then be reconciled to the feeling that he's wearing the same dress as everyone else in the room when he entertains Dennett, Dawkins, and Harris. He wonders if the other three are self-aware enough to have to fight and be silently reconciled to the same thing.

6. He unknowingly hates Christianity because at the serious biblical level it precludes being a self-righteous moralist.

7. He thinks resentment is a noble emotion. He's picked this up from movies.

8. He can't even remember any books that he's written.

9. He worries that the main thing he's absorbed from 20th century socialism is the self-promoting propaganda stuff; and then he doesn't worry about it anymore.

10. He suspects the amount of time he has with any audience before they realize he's really a bit of a silly, not-very-bright little man grows shorter and shorter by the hour...