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  <title>Just a Gwai Lo</title>
  <subtitle>fun within prescribed limits</subtitle>
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    <title>With His Quirky English Heroes</title>
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    <published>2005-06-02T20:34:07-07:00</published>
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    <author>
      <name>Richard</name>
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    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6870&amp;AuthKey=429e08632e27b0976dfb5e5b8f3a6996&amp;issue=505" title="Despite his US citizenship, Christopher Hitchens should be considered the finest English critic of his generation—of the literary, not just political, type">David Herman</a> on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560255803/sillygwailo-20"><i>Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays</i></a> by Christopher Hitchens: <span class="q">&ldquo;There are many references in Love, Poverty and War to solidarities, to roots and belonging: his father and grandfather, his English literary canon, a 200-year tradition of fellow contrarians, and friends and comrades today from Sarajevo to Central America. Yet there is something solitary in Hitchens, with his quirky English heroes—too white, too male and too posh for these times. When academics praise modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, Hitchens praises Kipling, Bellow and Lucky Jim.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p>See also <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/hay2005/story/0,,1496348,00.html">the transcript of Christopher Hitchens talking with his brother Peter at the Hay Festival</a>, in which <a href="http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/entry/2005/05/31#2615">a woman storms out protesting Christopher Hitchens' smoking</a> while she, an audience member, is forbidden from doing so, and <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com/aggregator/writers/christopher-hitchens">my page aggregating mentions of Christopher Hitchens in weblogs and other sources</a>.</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6870&amp;AuthKey=429e08632e27b0976dfb5e5b8f3a6996&amp;issue=505" title="Despite his US citizenship, Christopher Hitchens should be considered the finest English critic of his generation—of the literary, not just political, type">David Herman</a> on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560255803/sillygwailo-20"><i>Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays</i></a> by Christopher Hitchens: <span class="q">&ldquo;There are many references in Love, Poverty and War to solidarities, to roots and belonging: his father and grandfather, his English literary canon, a 200-year tradition of fellow contrarians, and friends and comrades today from Sarajevo to Central America. Yet there is something solitary in Hitchens, with his quirky English heroes—too white, too male and too posh for these times. When academics praise modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, Hitchens praises Kipling, Bellow and Lucky Jim.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p>See also <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/hay2005/story/0,,1496348,00.html">the transcript of Christopher Hitchens talking with his brother Peter at the Hay Festival</a>, in which <a href="http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/entry/2005/05/31#2615">a woman storms out protesting Christopher Hitchens' smoking</a> while she, an audience member, is forbidden from doing so, and <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com/aggregator/writers/christopher-hitchens">my page aggregating mentions of Christopher Hitchens in weblogs and other sources</a>.</p>
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