Dysentery had begun to take its toll, which was distinctly disagreeable at such close quarters. There wasn't much food and we hadn't been given any water for quite a while. Well, we were in a cell that was probably built for six but was holding about sixteen of us. For example, he starts a reminiscences of his days in an English boarding school with the following tall tale about British prisoners in a WW2 Japanese prison camp. First, the flab and discursions surround various patches of writing which are probing, erudite, etc. Still, I found plowing through this mess to be enjoyable for two reasons. Let us grant at the outset that his memoirs in Hitch 22 are, in contrast, self-indulgent, prolix, rambling, and discursive, badly in need of editing. Christopher Hitchens' innumerable journalistic pieces are generally tough-minded, probing, enormously erudite, and sometimes scathingly funny.
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