Gentlemen, let's broaden our minds, Lawrence.

You know, you know, you mentioned that Hitchens was a kind of middlingly successful political

writer until he became you know did that he became Christopher Higgs

till he was yeah he whacker yeah yeah yeah So he became Christopher Hitchhitch. Hitchwacker.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tilly became Bill Maher.

The Hitch Slap.

Yeah.

But what's still great about reading those kind of earlier articles

is even though he was only middlingly well known he

seemed to be everywhere still so you'll be reading any article and he'll be like

yes I had a dreary encounter with her royal highness while at some book launch or other.

There I was three gin and tonics in when Princess Margaret came in and proceeded to embark on a distasteful diatribe about China.

Whether it was the forbidden kingdom or the porcelain, I couldn't determine.

He'll be writing that in like 1987 or something you know long before I know he just was an

expert at being in the right place at the right time. There's that whole thing in in his

memoir about like where Margaret Thatcher allegedly spanked him on his backside

with the parliamentary order paper and said, naughty boy. That's great now like

we're kind of middlingly successful like thinkers and public

intellectuals and I'm I'm never in the same room as I don't know Justin Trudeau or

whoever the critic was.

Oh yeah. Less than a year ago, I was.

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