Re:In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011
by bravura on Friday December 16, 2011 @10:37AM
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Don't call him Chris.
'He did not, in fact, like being called "Chris" – his mother would not, he explained, wish her firstborn to be addressed "as if he were a taxi-driver or pothole-filler" – and found "Hitch", which most friends used, more acceptable.'
'He did not, in fact, like being called "Chris" – his mother would not, he explained, wish her firstborn to be addressed "as if he were a taxi-driver or pothole-filler" – and found "Hitch", which most friends used, more acceptable.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitc...
That obit is a good read, btw.