Despair is a mortal sin
The Telegraph talks with Christopher Hitchens:
"I have brought some deli food for lunch, but he waves it aside. Over the course of the next five hours he will fortify himself with nothing more substantial than a glass of whisky, cups of what he calls 'brown, Left-wing, working-class tea’ ('I think of herbal tea as right-wing,’ he adds) and a single banana. But if physically frail, his mental energy remains phenomenal.
"I have brought some deli food for lunch, but he waves it aside. Over the course of the next five hours he will fortify himself with nothing more substantial than a glass of whisky, cups of what he calls 'brown, Left-wing, working-class tea’ ('I think of herbal tea as right-wing,’ he adds) and a single banana. But if physically frail, his mental energy remains phenomenal.
Hitchens has always been a ferociously prolific and fastidious journalist. It is his proud boast that he has never missed a deadline, and he clearly has no intention of starting now. Since the onset of his illness he has continued to write his magazine columns and has managed to keep up all his religious debates, although he admits to finding them 'very draining’."
Thanks, Arts & Letters Daily.
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