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“Given total power over another, the human being will find that his thoughts turn to torture.”
-- Martin Amis, “Koba the Dread”
Hitchens is reviewing Amis’s book on Stalin, and he argues that this is not exactly new stuff.
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This is an insight of extreme, frigid bleakness, amounting almost to despair, but it also involves a minor waste of words. We knew this, after all, before we knew of Hitler or Stalin. Again to cite Orwell, there is a tendency for all stories of cruelty and atrocity to resemble one another.
-- Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight” in Arguably
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-- Martin Amis, “Koba the Dread”
Hitchens is reviewing Amis’s book on Stalin, and he argues that this is not exactly new stuff.
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This is an insight of extreme, frigid bleakness, amounting almost to despair, but it also involves a minor waste of words. We knew this, after all, before we knew of Hitler or Stalin. Again to cite Orwell, there is a tendency for all stories of cruelty and atrocity to resemble one another.
-- Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight” in Arguably
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