Hitch-22
Jag sitter och läser "Hitch-22", Christopher Hitchens biografi. Boken känns välplanerad med tanke på att han nyligen drabbats av esofaguscancer, (strupen).
Angående Vietnam:
"To all appearances, it seemed as if a military-industrial superpower was employing a terrible aerial bombardment of steel and explosives and chemicals to subdue a defiant agrarian society. I had expected the newly elected Labour government to withhold British support for this foul war (and the amazigly coarse and thuggish-looking American president who was prosecuting it), and when this expectation was disappointed I began, along many, many of my contemporaries, to experience a furious disillisionment with "conventional" politics. A bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you might think. My reply is that you should fucking well have been there, and felt if for yourself.
Had the study of life and literature and history merely domesticated me to waste and betray my youth, and to gape at a spectacle of undisgusted atrocity and aggression as if it should be camly received? I hope to never lose the access to outrage that I felt then.
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juli 21st, 2010 - 23:02
Esofagus – matstrupen. Strupe blir så ospecifikt. Om jag själv tänker på vad strupe är skulle jag placera den högt upp (jmf struptag). Cancer i matstrupen är oftast längre ned, precis ovanför övre magmunnen. Alkohol, rökning och övervikt är påverkbara riskfaktorer. Alkohol och tobak ger iof oftare cancer i övre delen av matstrupen, men författare är väl generellt sådana renlevnadsmänniskor så det är väl otänkbart
juli 22nd, 2010 - 09:43
I stand corrected