On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22 , Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady." Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture, astonishing readers with his capacity for superior work even in extremis.
Throughout the course of his ordeal battling esophageal cancer, Hitchens adamantly and bravely refused the solace of religion, preferring to confront death with both eyes open. In this riveting account of his affliction, Hitchens poignantly describes the torments of illness, discusses its taboos, and explores how disease transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us. By turns personal and philosophical, Hitchens embraces the full panoply of human emotions as cancer invades his body and compels him to grapple with the enigma of death.
MORTALITY is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous and lucid work of literature, an affirmation of the dignity and worth of man.
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dissolve, a man engulfed by death. vertiginous. fragmentary jottings, an overflow of nietzschean vitality — can’t hide the dreariness. horrified, flipped through a page, it’s the last page, and find Hitchens no more. No More. “Brave? Hah! Save it for a fight you can’t run away from.”
评分Still being oneself might be the best way to die? "Will I really not live to see my children married? ...To read – if indeed not to write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?"|"what do I want back? In the most beautiful apposition of two of the simplest words in our language: the freedom of speech."
评分dissolve, a man engulfed by death. vertiginous. fragmentary jottings, an overflow of nietzschean vitality — can’t hide the dreariness. horrified, flipped through a page, it’s the last page, and find Hitchens no more. No More. “Brave? Hah! Save it for a fight you can’t run away from.”
评分印象最深的是他对尼采那句“What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger”的另类阐释
评分智慧是有的，但是太碎片了，毕竟身体状况不允许了。
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