6/20/2023 0 Comments Mortality by Christopher Hitchens![]() ![]() It is not given to everyone to read of his own death, let alone when announced in passing in such a matter-of-fact way.” “So there it is in cold print, the plain unadorned phrase that will one day become unarguably true. “Martin was literary editor of the New Statesman, working with the late Christopher Hitchens and Julian Barnes, who was married to Pat Kavanagh, Martin’s then literary agent.” It was entitled ‘Martin Amis and friends’ and qualified by the following sentence: In the prologue to his memoirs, Hitch 22, entitled ‘Prologue with Premonitions’, Hitchens recalls reading a magazine notice about an upcoming exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery to honour the work of photographer Angela Gorgas. His quotes on life and death are thoughtful and poignant. But for Christopher Hitchens, a magazine notice that referred to him as “the late Christopher Hitchens” was sadly prescient and gave him cause to reflect. It happened to Mark Twain, Alfred Nobel, Ernest Hemingway, and others. Most of us have heard anecdotes about public figures who had read their own premature obituaries. ![]()
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