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| | Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens, and "Koba the Dread" |
 | | One section of Koba the Dread is written as an open letter to Amis’s friend, Christopher Hitchens, formerly a columnist for the Nation and still a columnist for Vanity Fair. |
 | | Koba the Dread is actually a shoddy book, but given his current politics, Hitchens is unable to refute it, nor is he really inclined to, despite some harrumphing about the legacy of socialist heretics. |
 | | Koba the Dread shows little regard for discretion or good sense, is too dull to discern dullness, and thereby justifies again the best known lines from Pope’s poem: “A little learning is a dangerous thing/ Drink deep, or taste not of the Pierian spring.” |
| www.laborstandard.org /New_Postings/Left_to_Right_Fall_2002.htm (2487 words) |
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