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Hitch 22 by christopher hitchens
Hitch 22 by christopher hitchens




hitch 22 by christopher hitchens

I think of this every time I hear of the callow ambition to 'make a new start' or to be 'born again': Do those who talk this way truly wish for the slate to be wiped? Genocide means not just mass killing, to the level of extermination, but mass obliteration to the verge of extinction. She went on living, but with a tabula rasa as her diary and calendar and notebook. All her birthdays, exam results, illnesses, friendships, kinships-gone.

hitch 22 by christopher hitchens hitch 22 by christopher hitchens

No one who remembered her girlhood and her early mischief and family lore no sibling or boon companion who could tease her about that first romance no lover or pal with whom to reminisce. “I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, who knew who she was.






Hitch 22 by christopher hitchens