New York barmen, taxi drivers and policemen may labor too hard to give the impression of having seen it all before. But there is always a nagging suspicion that they actually have.

Christopher Hitchens on New York, his adopted home.

Hitch died from pneumonia, a complication of the throat cancer he was suffering from, at a Texan hospital yesterday. He was 62. 

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