RIP Christopher Hitchens

An oldie.

Here's a man who could write. Who else but Hitchens can work in "dispiriting tampon surrogate" so effortlessly?

And one more on the great P.G.Wodehouse.

"As it is, one so often bumps into lost souls who claim to have "tried" Wodehouse and not got the joke. These are the unfortunates who in early and impressionable youth were handed a duff anthology by a well-meaning but mirthless aunt (or, admittedly, uncle)."

There are still Wodehouse votaries in this generation (Thanks in some part to Stephen Fry and Hugh Lawry) though they seem to be dying lot. I, for one, must be grateful to Dad for introducing Wodehouse to me. How often do you read an entire book with a silly grin on your face.