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Hitchens · immortality · literature

On Literary Immortality

August 17, 2010 John FarrellLeave a comment

Bill Vallicella has a tough piece on Hitchens and his hope to live on in his works. For what he takes to be the illusion of immortality, Hitch substitutes literary immortality.  “As an adult whose hopes lay assuredly in the intellect, not in the hereafter, he concluded, ‘Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and —… Continue reading On Literary Immortality

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