January 29, 2012
(...) Christopher [Hitchens] became almost ferally polite, addressing Mos [Def], as he tore into his ideas, by the faux-respectful moniker “Mr. Definitely,” a name so belittlingly funny that it rendered even more risible the risible notions which Mr. D. was trying to advance.

Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011, for Vanity Fair, January 2012.

I bought the last issue of VF that Hitchens graced with a column, to cry and laugh at Rushie’s eulogy.

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