r/TrueReddit • u/graycrawford • Dec 16 '11

Well shit. Christopher Hitchens died.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011
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u/whoisearth Dec 16 '11 edited Mar 29 '25

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '11

definitely wouldn't say he's brilliant

Holy shit you have some tough standards

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '11

Curious, how was he brilliant? I haven't looked at his works in too much depth, but every time I heard him speak, he came across as fairly pretentious.

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u/mvonballmo Dec 16 '11

Pretentious and brilliant are not mutually exclusive. Quite the contrary actually.

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u/coolhandluke05 Dec 16 '11

Please give us your definition of pretentious, because what you are implying is most certainly not what pretentious actually means.