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is not with mortality. Hitchens cleaves to the logical conclusion of his materialism. He hints, rather, at a fear of losing himself, of becoming an imbecile, someone who might, in terror and pain, say something foolish or (God forbid) religious near the end, to give his enemies satisfaction. The true
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struggle of his last writings is to remain himself, deep in the country of the ill, for as long as he can." Another positive review came from the magazine where
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