Hitch 22
Below is one of the opening quotes from Christopher Hitchens’ latest novel “Hitch 22”:
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of the Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.”
-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow
A review on the back of the book by Dawkins reads: “If you are invited to debate…with Christopher Hitchens, decline. His witty repartee, his ready-access store of historical quotations, his bookish eloquence, his effortless flow of well-formed words…would threaten your arguments even if you had good ones to deploy.”
I would die to see the two of them go at it!
