| 00:00:00 | HE DISCUSSES HIS MEMOIR HITCH-22 FOR HAVE AN HOUR. |
| 00:00:06 | >> WHO TALKED YOU INTO DOING AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY? |
| 00:00:12 | >> IT WOULD BE THE PERSON WHO WROTE MY OBITUARY BY ACCIDENT. |
| 00:00:17 | IN THE CATALOG IN LONDON A COUPLE YEARS AGO THERE WAS AN EXHIBIT ABOUT A GROUP OF PEOPLE. |
| 00:00:30 | IT REFERRED TO THE LATE CHRISTOPHER HICHENS. |
| 00:00:34 | THEY WERE TERRIBLY UPSET. |
| 00:00:36 | I SAID NO, I WANT SEVERAL COPIES. |
| 00:00:42 | NOTHING FOCUSES THE MIND LIKE READING YOURSELF IN THE PAST TENSE. |
| 00:00:47 | ANY JUDGMENT I HAD WHEN I WAS ASKED TO DO A MEMOIR WOULD IT BE TOO EARLY? |
| 00:00:58 | THERE WAS THAT. |
| 00:01:02 | I SAW MYSELF -- I TALKED MYSELF INTO IT BECAUSE I DIDN'T MUCH MIND BEING 40 OR 50 BUT IT HIT ME HARDER THAN I THOUGHT AND I FOUND I WAS LOOKING BACKWARDS, BROODING ON THINGS. |
| 00:01:18 | IT WAS THE RIGHT MOMENT TO IT. |
| 00:01:27 | >> Y HITCH-22? |
| 00:01:28 | >> I END UP HAVING DESCRIBED A LOT OF COMMITMENTS IN MY LIFE. |
| 00:01:33 | A LOT OF BATTLES LIE HAVE TAKEN PART IN. |
| 00:01:38 | WITH A GENERAL PLANNING AGAINST CERTAINTY AND PURITY, AGAINST CONSISTENCY. |
| 00:01:44 | I'M NOT A MEMBER OF ANY PARTY. |
| 00:01:47 | I AM ASSOCIATED WITH A GROUP OF SKEPTICS WHO ASHORE ONE THING THAT NOTHING IS FOR SURE. |
| 00:01:53 | THE ABSOLUTE 70 OF THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. |
| 00:01:59 | MY HITCH-22 IS MY COMMITMENT TO DOUBT. |
| 00:02:03 | THAT IS THE IDEA. |
| 00:02:06 | THEN THERE WAS A GAME. |
| 00:02:08 | A LOT OF WORD GAMES IN THE BOOK. |
| 00:02:11 | SCHOOLBOY HUMOR. |
| 00:02:12 | KIDDING BETTER AS TIME GOES ON. |
| 00:02:16 | ONE OF THEM IS A GAME INVENTED WHERE YOU THINK OF A BOOK TITLE THAT DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT. |
| 00:02:22 | FOR WHOM THE BELL RINGS FOR EXAMPLE OR MYSTERY ZHIVAGO OR GOOD EXPECTATIONS IS ANOTHER ONE. |
| 00:02:34 | FAREWELL TO WEAPONS. |
| 00:02:37 | PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. |
| 00:02:41 | AND ONE WAS HITCH-22. |
| 00:02:42 | I MIGHT BARRAULT'S THAT. |
| 00:02:44 | >> DESK IS A SCENE IN YOUR BOOK. |
| 00:02:47 | WHY? |
| 00:02:48 | >> BECAUSE I BEGIN WITH MY OWN OBITUARY. |
| 00:02:53 | THEN BECAUSE IT IS NOT AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY EXACTLY BUT IF EVERYONE IS DOING A MEMOIR THEY HAVE TO DO ONE CHAPTER REACH ABOUT THEIR PARENTS. |
| 00:03:02 | DESK IS A BIG SUBJECT BECAUSE MY MOTHER TOOK HER OWN LIFE IN VERY TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES THAT I DESCRIBED AND MY FATHER WAS IN THE WAR BUSINESS. |
| 00:03:15 | HE HAD A VERY TOUGH WAR. |
| 00:03:20 | I WAS BROUGHT UP EARLY ON ON STORIES OF CHEAPLY BRITISH FOWLER. |
| 00:03:29 | I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW OLD I WAS BUT I REALIZED ALL BOOKS AND FILMS WERE NOT ABOUT THE SECOND WORLD WAR. |
| 00:03:35 | I THOUGHT THEY WERE. |
| 00:03:37 | >> YOUR FINAL CHAPTER ABOUT YOUR MOTHER. |
| 00:03:43 | >> THAT IS WHAT ARE USED TO CALL HER. |
| 00:03:48 | SHE LIKED IT. |
| 00:03:51 | IT IS A NICE NAME. |
| 00:03:58 | WHEN I THINK ABOUT HER I DON'T THINK MONEY. |
| 00:04:07 | WE WERE VERY CLOSE. |
| 00:04:09 | WE CAME FROM A SLIGHTLY DRAB ENGLISH SOCIETY. |
| 00:04:17 | WE HAD ASPIRATIONS. |
| 00:04:19 | MY MOTHER WAS A SORT OF FAILED VILLAIN. |
| 00:04:22 | SHE KEPT TRYING TO OPEN DRESS SHOPS. |
| 00:04:29 | AND SO THINGS LIKE VESSEL OR MARJORIE, I ALWAYS THOUGHT YVONNE HAD A TOUCH OF CLASS TO IT. |
| 00:04:42 | A BIT MORE STYLISH. |
| 00:04:43 | AND SHE WAS THAT. |
| 00:04:46 | I DESCRIBED THAT. |
| 00:04:48 | THE CREAM IN THE COFFEE. |
| 00:04:51 | SHE WAS CHEERFUL AND HUMOROUS AND ONCE SAID TO ME THE ONLY UNFORGIVABLE SIN IS TO BE BORING. |
| 00:05:04 | FEAR OF BECOMING A BOAR OR BEING BORING. |
| 00:05:09 | TEDIUM. >> YOU HAVE THAT FEAR? |
| 00:05:15 | >> YES. |
| 00:05:16 | IT IS WITH ME ALWAYS. |
| 00:05:18 | IT IS OF THE MOST DEVASTATING WORD ONE CAN USE AGAINST SOMEBODY OR RISK HAVING USED AGAINST YOU. |
| 00:05:23 | TO BE BORING. |
| 00:05:25 | MUSTN'T BE BORING. |
| 00:05:27 | >> THIS BOOK IS FULL OF NAMES. |
| 00:05:32 | I WILL THROW SOME OF AND HEAVY RESPOND. |
| 00:05:38 | MARTIN AMIS. WHAT IS HIS RELATIONSHIP? |
| 00:05:43 | >> HE IS A NOVELIST WITH A KILLER AND GRAVITY. |
| 00:05:48 | HE HAS WRITTEN NOVELS ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND ABOUT THE ARCHIPELAGO AND HIS BEST HUMOR IS CALLED MONEY WHICH IS THE STUDY OF ANGLO-AMERICAN DEGENERACY AT THE COST OF THE 1980s IN WHICH I APPEAR ONCE OR TWICE FERRY HEAVILY DISGUISED. |
| 00:06:13 | HE IS MY BEST FRIEND AND HAS BEEN SINCE WE WERE IN THE TRENCHES. |
| 00:06:25 | BASICALLY IS LOVE LETTERS AND I SAY IN THAT CHAPTER THE QUESTION I AM TRYING TO ANSWER IS CAN YOU HAVE A HETEROSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER GUY. |
| 00:06:35 | I DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU CAN WAR NOT. |
| 00:06:39 | UNDECIDED TO GIVE IT TO AN OLD COLLEGE FRIEND. |
| 00:06:44 | SITE DESCRIBED HIS INFLUENCE ON MY RIDING, THE WAY IN WHICH WE USED TO HAVE LONG AND INTENSE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WOMEN, THE INEXHAUSTIBLE SUBJECT. |
| 00:07:03 | I SHOWED HOW YOU CAN MAKE LEAD INTO GOLD. |
| 00:07:07 | WE BOTH MADE AN OUTFIT IN NEW YORK WHICH HE HAD TO GO TO BECAUSE HE HAD TO EXPOSE HIMSELF TO THIS. |
| 00:07:17 | IT WAS MOST INTENSELY SORTED AND HORRIBLE AND DEPRESSING. |
| 00:07:25 | MORNING OF MY LIFE, OF ANYTHING. |
| 00:07:31 | FOR IN TOO. I GIVE THE PAGE REFERENCE. |
| 00:07:35 | WHEN I READ THAT SECTION, THE FIASCO, I THOUGHT YOU HAVE ALL MORNING TO BE MISERABLE. |
| 00:07:47 | NOW IS A CHANGE. |
| 00:07:52 | YOU CAN GET YOUR TIME BACK. |
| 00:07:55 | I AM GIVING YOU A HINT. |
| 00:08:02 | THAT GREAT ENTHUSIASM AND RISK IN MY LIFE. |
| 00:08:05 | >> YOU DEDICATE THE BOOK TO ST. |
| 00:08:10 | CLINTON. |
| 00:08:11 | >> CHANGED MY LIFE WHEN I MET HIM ALSO. |
| 00:08:19 | IN THE LATE 60s. |
| 00:08:20 | WE WERE THAT CONTEMPORARY. |
| 00:08:22 | HE WAS A COLOR FLOODING IN ENGLISH. |
| 00:08:30 | BEST KNOWN FROM INDOCHINA. |
| 00:08:31 | IT IS SURPRISING WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. |
| 00:08:34 | THERE IS NO POETRY GENERATED BY THE VIETNAM WAR. |
| 00:08:41 | THERE HAVE BEEN IN OTHER WARS. |
| 00:08:45 | I POSTED SOME OF THIS. |
| 00:08:49 | HE AS WELL AS MARCHING AND A FEW OTHERS TOLD ME THERE WAS MORE THAN RUNNING. |
| 00:08:57 | I USED TO THINK THAT A GOOD ARTICLE WAS HOW WELL I ARGUE THE CASE AND LAY OUT THE ARGUMENTS FOR HOW BAD I COULD MAKE THE RIGHT WING LOOK AND THE ARGUMENT WAS ALL VERY DIDACTIC AND HE WAS VERY MUCH TO THE LEFT LIKE ME. |
| 00:09:16 | HE IMAGINED MUCH MORE HOW THE ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN MAKING EVERY WORD COUNT USING IRONY AND UNDERSTATEMENT AND HUMOR AND WROTE A COUPLE OF THOSE TOGETHER. |
| 00:09:30 | HE WAS IMMENSELY INFLUENTIAL ON ME IN THAT WAY. |
| 00:09:43 | >> PETER SEDGWICK. |
| 00:09:46 | >> LESS TO THE AUDIENCE. |
| 00:09:52 | HE WAS AN INTELLECTUAL. |
| 00:09:55 | HE WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE TO THE LEFT OF THE LEFT. |
| 00:10:03 | VERY MUCH AGAINST THE CULT FIGURES OF THE 60s WHO WERE BEING BANDIED ABOUT. |
| 00:10:10 | THEY WERE COMMON DURING NAMES WHEN A -- HE THOUGHT THE '60S WAS A FALSE PROMISE. |
| 00:10:17 | THE COUNTERCULTURE DIDN'T INTEREST HIM. |
| 00:10:21 | HE WAS A SCIENTIST OR PSYCHIATRISTS WHO BELIEVE IN OBJECTIVITY. |
| 00:10:28 | WASN'T EASILY SWAYED. |
| 00:10:33 | INTRODUCED A DIFFERENT MARXIST TRADITION OF WRITING. |
| 00:10:39 | GEORGE ORWELL. |
| 00:10:41 | THE GREAT WEST INDIAN HISTORIAN WHO WROTE THE ONLY BOOK ON THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION. |
| 00:10:50 | FANTASTIC BOOK ABOUT THE REBELLION IN HAITI AND WAS THE BEST WRITER ON CRICKET. |
| 00:10:59 | AN ODD THING FOR A REVOLUTIONARY TO BE DOING BUT HE INTRODUCED YOU TO IDIOSYNCRATIC THINGS. |
| 00:11:07 | THE TRADITION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT GOT BURIED BY THE HITLER STALIN BRANCH. |
| 00:11:14 | AND HAD SOMETHING OF A REVIVAL. |
| 00:11:24 | >> RUSTIC. |
| 00:11:25 | >> A CHANCE TO HIS CAUSE. |
| 00:11:27 | I WAS JUST GETTING TO KNOW HIM. |
| 00:11:28 | I HAD BECOME A FRIEND OF HIS WHEN HE SUDDENLY BECAME EVEN MORE FAMOUS THAN HE THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BECOME. |
| 00:11:34 | EVEN MORE WELL-KNOWN FOR HIS WRITINGS. |
| 00:11:39 | ALL IN ONE GO UNFORTUNATELY. |
| 00:11:41 | BUT GOT INCREDIBLY BAD REVIEWS FROM THE AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI WHO WAS NOT CONTENT WITH A BAD REVIEW, ALSO PUT MONEY IN HIS OWN NAME FOR SOMEONE'S MURDER. |
| 00:11:55 | AND UNBELIEVABLE FRONTAL ATTACK ON CIVILIZATION. |
| 00:12:00 | HE HAD TO GO INTO HIDING. |
| 00:12:03 | THERE WERE SOME WHO WERE PROUD TO BE HIS FRIEND AT THE TIME. |
| 00:12:07 | THEY KEEP IN TOUCH WITH HIM TO KEEP UP HIS SPIRITS. |
| 00:12:10 | HE WAS AFRAID NOT SO MUCH THAT THEY WOULD FIND HIM AND KILL HIM BUT HE COULDN'T WRITE. |
| 00:12:17 | HE WAS WRONG TO FEAR THAT. |
| 00:12:20 | HE HAS WRITTEN SOME GREAT STUFF SINCE THEN. |
| 00:12:24 | VERY EMBLEMATIC FIGURE OF THE 20TH-CENTURY. |
| 00:12:29 | THE IDEA OF INTELLECTUAL MIGRANTS AFFIRMING TWO CONTINENTS. |
| 00:12:34 | INCREDIBLE THAT ENGLISH IS HIS SECOND LANGUAGE. |
| 00:12:41 | HE SPEAKS BIT BETTER THAN ANYONE. |
| 00:12:45 | AS I SAY HE USUALLY IMPROVES A LEVEL OF CHILDISH SCHOOLBOY WORD GAMES. |
| 00:12:55 | I WILL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. |
| 00:12:56 | HE WAS ONCE ASKED ABOUT ANY CORPORATION, WHAT WOULD A SHAKESPEARE PLAY BE TITLED -- WON'T TELL YOU HOW THAT CAME UP BUT PICTURE NAMING A SHAKESPEARE PLAY. |
| 00:13:11 | TRY ME. |
| 00:13:15 | HAMLET. HE SAID THE ULTIMATE VACILLATION. |
| 00:13:19 | UNBELIEVABLY CLEVER. |
| 00:13:21 | I BET YOU CAN'T DO THAT TWICE. |
| 00:13:29 | DEFORESTATION. |
| 00:13:31 | FAILURE OF THE IMPLICATION. |
| 00:13:32 | THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, THE RIALTO SANCTION. |
| 00:13:35 | THERE ARE SOME MORE IN THE BOOK. |
| 00:13:37 | HE HAS A REAL HOLD ON ENGLISH LITERATURE. |
| 00:13:41 | HE REALLY KNOWS IT. |
| 00:13:43 | IN ADDITION IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH, HE HAS BECOME ONE OF THE GREAT SYMBOLIC FIGURES IN THE BATTLE OVER FREE EXPRESSION WHICH NEVER ENDS. |
| 00:13:57 | WE NEVER THOUGHT WE WOULD HAVE TO DEFEND THE FIRST AMENDMENT AGAINST SUCH FANTASTIC VIOLENT FUNDAMENTALISTS BUT IT WAS WHEN THE HOUR HAD STRUCK WHEN IT DID. |
| 00:14:15 | PERHAPS IT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE THAT. |
| 00:14:21 | >> TAKING THE CITIZENSHIP TEST. |
| 00:14:26 | >> SHORTLY AFTER 9/11 I REALIZE I HAD BEEN LIVING IN THE STATES FOR A LONG TIME, TWO DECADES. |
| 00:14:32 | I HAD A GREEN CARD THAT WAS SO OLD IT DIDN'T HAVE AN EXPIRATION DATE. |
| 00:14:38 | A PLATINUM GREEN CARD YOU MIGHT SAY. |
| 00:14:40 | I HAD THREE CHILDREN AND AMERICAN WIVES. |
| 00:14:47 | I MIGHT GET DEPORTED. |
| 00:14:48 | AND THE EUROPEAN UNION POSSIBLE. |
| 00:14:51 | I COULD HAVE GONE ON BEING ANGLO-AMERICAN. |
| 00:14:54 | FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS. |
| 00:14:56 | BUT I WAS CHEATING ON MY VIEWS THAT I SHOULD GET INTO AMERICAN SOCIETY AFTER THAT. |
| 00:15:09 | AND WROTE FROM HERE. |
| 00:15:11 | BEGAN TO FEEL MORE LIKE AN AMERICAN. |
| 00:15:14 | EVEN FEEL MORE LIKE A WASHINGTONIAN. |
| 00:15:15 | WASHINGTON WAS MORE LIKE MY FACE I USED TO THINK. |
| 00:15:23 | SO I APPLIED. |
| 00:15:24 | VERY HARD TO DO THE PAPERWORK THESE DAYS. |
| 00:15:29 | THEY KEPT MAKING APPOINTMENTS AND BREAKING THEM AND PUTTING THEM OFF. |
| 00:15:32 | THEY WOULD SEND ME AN EXAM WHICH EVEN HAD THE ANSWERS IN IT. |
| 00:15:42 | QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT BE ASKED IN AN INTERVIEW AND SOME OF THEM WERE RATHER TRIVIAL LIKE WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF BECOMING AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. |
| 00:15:54 | SOMETHING NOBLE COULD BE SAID. |
| 00:15:56 | YOU COULD SAY YOU COULD APPLY FOR A JOB AT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND BRING YOUR RELATIVES AND FROM OVERSEAS. |
| 00:16:05 | I WOULD THINK THE UNITED STATES COULD SAY A BIT MORE FOR ITSELF AND THAT. |
| 00:16:09 | HE MUSTN'T TRY TO BE FUNNY. |
| 00:16:11 | AGAINST WHOM DID WE FIGHT IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION? |
| 00:16:16 | MIGHT THINK THE ANSWER IS THE ROYAL FAMILY THAT YOU SERVED IN BRITAIN BUT THE CORRECT ANSWER IS THE BRITISH. |
| 00:16:23 | YOU HAVE TO GET THAT RIGHT. |
| 00:16:25 | IT IS DISCOURAGING BUT I SAT UP THE NIGHT BEFORE NOT IN ANY FEAR OF FAILING THE EXAM BUT I READ THROUGH THE CONSTITUTION AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND HAVE A SECTION ABOUT YOU CAN READ ABOUT AMERICA BY LOOKING AT THE DATES OF THOSE AMENDMENTS. |
| 00:16:49 | THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY CAME ABOUT. |
| 00:16:52 | IT IS NICE BECAUSE IT IS NICE IN ITSELF BECAUSE IT DOES DEMONSTRATE PROGRESS AND YOU WONDER ABOUT IT. |
| 00:16:59 | SECOND, WE WILL HAVE JUSTIFIED. |
| 00:17:02 | SHOWS A GREAT COUNTRY FOR A WRITER BECAUSE IT IS BASED ON WRITTEN DOCUMENTS WHICH ARE DELIBERATELY THERE IN ORDER TO EXPOSE THEMSELVES TO REWRITE. |
| 00:17:15 | THEY CAN BE REVISED. |
| 00:17:16 | THE MUSIC OF THE WORDS AND THE MEANING OF THEM AND THE LEGALITY OF THEM ARE IMPORTANT AND THAT IS UNIQUE. |
| 00:17:28 | THAT I WAS ABLE BY GOOD LUCK TO HAVE MY CEREMONY TO TAKE THE OATH THAT THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON D. |
| 00:17:38 | C. ON HIS BIRTHDAY WHICH IS ALSO MINE. |
| 00:17:41 | I WROTE A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF HIM. |
| 00:17:47 | RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WAS ONE OF THE THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED FOR. |
| 00:17:55 | THAT WAS A WONDERFUL DAY. |
| 00:17:59 | >> SYLVIA PLATH. |
| 00:18:02 | >> KEEP COMING UP IN MY JEWELRY BECAUSE -- SHE DIDN'T WRITE ABOUT IT BUT SHE HAD THE OCCASION OF THE ENORMOUS NUMBER OF BOOKS ABOUT FEMALES OF DESTRUCTION. |
| 00:18:20 | I DON'T JUST RIDE IT CHAPTER ABOUT MY MOTHER'S SELF SLAUGHTER SUICIDE. |
| 00:18:26 | I ALSO WRITE A SHORT CHAPTER REFLECTING ON SUICIDE. |
| 00:18:31 | THE TOUGH STORY KEEPS COMING UP IN THAT AND ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS LINES IN THE BELL JAR. |
| 00:18:42 | THE FAMILY COMING FROM SOME MANIC DEPRESSIVE AND LET OR GERMAN POLISH -- AND IT SO HAPPENS THAT THAT IS WHERE MY MOTHER'S FAMILY COMES FROM. |
| 00:18:52 | THAT WAS A SECRET IN MY FAMILY FOR A LONG TIME. |
| 00:18:55 | IT DIDN'T FIND OUT IN JULY WAS 30. |
| 00:19:01 | MY MOTHER'S FAMILY WAS OF JEWISH DESCENT FROM WHAT IS NOW POLAND BUT WAS THEN GERMANY. |
| 00:19:08 | IT IS HORRIBLE WHEN THAT BORDER MOVES AT ANY TIME IN EUROPEAN HISTORY. |
| 00:19:13 | TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN WHEN THAT BORDER CHANGES. |
| 00:19:17 | I HAVE A CHAPTER ON WHY I THINK IT IS SHE KEPT THE SECRET FROM MY FATHER. |
| 00:19:24 | ALMOST AS IF SHE KNEW. |
| 00:19:26 | SHE DIED BEFORE WE COULD HAVE THE CONVERSATION. |
| 00:19:30 | I GO TO POLAND TO FIND THE OLDEST DOUBLE AND SEE IF I CAN FIND ANY NOTES. |
| 00:19:44 | THEY ARE ALL DEAD. |
| 00:19:45 | BY FASCISM. |
| 00:19:47 | SO HER CONCEPT WAS MANIC DEPRESSIVE HAMLET COMES GARY LOCKE FOR ME ON THAT TRIP. |
| 00:19:56 | >> PETER HICHENS. |
| 00:19:57 | >> MY YOUNGER BROTHER. |
| 00:20:02 | SLIGHTLY TOO CLOSE. |
| 00:20:03 | I USED AND NOT NOTICE THINGS LIKE BIRTH ORDER AND ALL THESE THINGS AND IT IS QUITE IMPORTANT AND THINGS FOR PARENTS TO THINK ABOUT. |
| 00:20:13 | IF YOU HAVE A BROTHER WHO IS A FEW MONTHS YOUNGER THAN ME HE IS TOO CLOSE TO BE THE BABY BROTHER BUT CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE A RIVAL. |
| 00:20:26 | OF ALL THINGS FOR MY MOTHER'S ATTENTION. |
| 00:20:30 | I DON'T REMEMBER IT BUT I'M TOLD I BECAME VERY JEALOUS AND I CAN BELIEVE IT. |
| 00:20:36 | AS SIBLINGS WE HAVE NEVER BEEN VERY CLOSE. |
| 00:20:39 | NEVER LIVED IN THE SAME TOWN. |
| 00:20:43 | HE LIVES IN OXFORD AND IS A VERY WELL-KNOWN NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST IN ENGLAND TO THE EXTREME RIGHT. |
| 00:20:57 | HE IS VERY WELL KNOWN AS A CHRISTIAN BELIEVER BUT HE HAS EVEN WRITTEN A BOOK YOU WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, COMING OUT THIS BOOK CALLED THE RAGE AGAINST GOD, HOW ATHEISM LED ME TO FACE. |
| 00:21:14 | IT IS AND EXPANDED DIALOGUE WITH ME AND MY NONBELIEVERS. |
| 00:21:20 | THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE I COULD HAVE WITH ANYONE. |
| 00:21:23 | ALL POLITICAL DIFFERENCES ARE DWARFED BY THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE SUPERNATURAL DIMENSION LIKE HIM AND THOSE WHO DO NOT. |
| 00:21:36 | THAT DEBATE ALL OUR ARGUMENTS AND WEAR PHILOSOPHY BEGINS. |
| 00:21:42 | WHERE BIOLOGY BEGINS TOO. |
| 00:21:47 | HE IS A VERY GOOD WRITER. |
| 00:21:50 | HE IS VERY SERIOUS. |
| 00:21:54 | OF BIT MORE SOLEMN THAN ME PERHAPS. |
| 00:21:58 | WHEN I SAY RIGHT WING LINE BEEN DOING THE RIGHT WING. |
| 00:22:04 | HE REGARDS THINGS LIKE IRAQ FOR INSTANCE AS A LEFT/RIGHT. |
| 00:22:10 | IN MY EXPERIENCE THE IRAQI AND KURDISH LEFT OUR FRIENDS OF MINE. |
| 00:22:17 | LARGE NUMBERS OF THE AMERICAN RIGHT -- THE REALISTS AND SO FORTH GENERALLY AGAINST IT AT THE SAME IS TRUE OF THE ISOLATIONIST FORCE IN BRITAIN OF WHICH MY BROTHER IS A PART. |
| 00:22:32 | AT ONE POINT HE SAYS THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN IS A STUPID LEFT WING WORK THAT ONLY SOMEONE LIKE MY BROTHER COULD POSSIBLY SUPPORT. |
| 00:22:41 | THERE IS MORE TRUTH IN THAT THAN IN THE CHIEF ALLEGATION THAT IF YOU ARE IN FAVOR OF LIBERATION YOU ARE SOMEHOW RIGHT WING. |
| 00:22:50 | WHICH I ALSO TRY TO DEAL WITH AND HAVE A CHAPTER ABOUT. |
| 00:22:59 | FOR >> ON THE BACK OF YOUR BOOK, THE TYPICAL BLURB A BOOK WOULD HAVE. |
| 00:23:04 | CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY SAYS YOU ARE THE GREATEST LIVING AS A SIN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. |
| 00:23:11 | GORE VIDAL IF HE WISHED TO NOMINATE A SUCCESSOR, I HAVE DECIDED TO NAME CHRISTOPHER HIS CHINS. |
| 00:23:19 | THAT IS ON HERE BUT IS MARKED OUT. |
| 00:23:23 | >> HE TOOK THAT BACK. |
| 00:23:29 | WE HAVE A BIG FALLING OUT THAT IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB. |
| 00:23:45 | THAT IS MORE THAN A DIFFERENCE IN EMPHASIS. |
| 00:23:48 | SO HE MADE A COUPLE REMARKS AT ONE POINT SEEMING TO SUGGEST I MADE THAT STATEMENT UP. |
| 00:23:58 | IT SEEMS TO ME HE WAS TAKING IT BACK. |
| 00:24:01 | IF HE DOESN'T TAKE IT BACK I WILL TAKE IT BACK MYSELF. |
| 00:24:08 | HE SAYS IT IS LIKE A FEUD AND HE SHOULD HAVE ONE. |
| 00:24:13 | >> CHRISTOPHER HICHENS. |
| 00:24:14 | >> THE DATE OF MY LIFE. |
| 00:24:18 | MY UGLY YOUNGER BROTHER. |
| 00:24:21 | I TRIED TO OBLITERATE HIM. |
| 00:24:24 | MY MOTHER HATED CALLING ME CHRIS. |
| 00:24:28 | IF YOUR NAME IS HICHENS THE AGE IS BOUND TO GO. |
| 00:24:31 | CHRIS IS A NICE NAME. |
| 00:24:35 | CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY CALLS AND SELF SAID. |
| 00:24:39 | I WISH HE WOULDN'T. |
| 00:24:44 | WE COMPROMISED ON CHRIS DODD. |
| 00:24:48 | PEOPLE AT SCHOOL TRY TO CALL ME THAT. |
| 00:24:50 | IT CAN BE DIFFICULT IN AMERICA BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE FRIENDLY AND LIKE TO GET THE FIRST NAME VERY FAST AND SHORTEN THEM TO BE MORE FRIENDLY ALMOST BEFORE YOU GET TO KNOW THEM SO UNLESS YOU QUICKLY SAY THAT USE A CHRISTOPHER AND YOU WILL SOUND LIKE A SNOB WORSE SOMEONE WHO IS REPUDIATING FRIENDLY ADVANCES. |
| 00:25:13 | IT IS A CONSTANT BATTLE FOR ME. |
| 00:25:18 | I THINK NOW I HAVE WON BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T CALL ME CHRIS ANYMORE. |
| 00:25:25 | A LOT OF FRIENDS CALL ME HITCH-22 WHICH IS THE OTHER REASON FOR THE TITLE. |
| 00:25:30 | IF I WENT TO MY FATHER'S NAVAL REUNION, A REUNION OF HIS OLD SHIPMATES, RATHER TOUCHINGLY, LAST REUNION THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE, I NOTICED I HAD NEVER KNOWN THAT BEFORE. |
| 00:25:47 | THAT IS WHAT MY FRIENDS WERE GOING TO CALL ME. |
| 00:25:53 | THAT IS ANOTHER REASON, ANOTHER FOLD OR WRINKLE IN THE TITLE. |
| 00:26:00 | >> WHAT WAS THE PROCESS OF WRITING A MEMOIR LIKE FOR YOU? |
| 00:26:08 | >> IT WAS A GOOD BIT HARDER THAN I EXPECTED IT WOULD BE. |
| 00:26:13 | IT WAS GIVING ME A HARD TIME FOR THREE REASONS. |
| 00:26:19 | USUALLY I AM TRYING TO MAKE A CASE, NOT AN ARGUMENT. |
| 00:26:24 | MOST OF THE TIME. |
| 00:26:29 | AT LEAST I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I AM DOING. |
| 00:26:32 | I HAVE DONE A FAIR BIT OF IT. |
| 00:26:41 | FOR THIS I AM NOT MAKING A CASE. |
| 00:26:45 | THE STYLE OF WRITING GETS -- IF YOU ARE NOT CAREFUL. |
| 00:26:49 | I WOULD NORMALLY BE TRYING TO SEE HOW MUCH I CAN TAP IN FOR A NUMBER OF WORDS. |
| 00:26:55 | A LONG AS THEY MIGHT BE MORE SHORT. |
| 00:27:06 | WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO REMEMBER THE DELAY GOOD MEMORY, MORE THAN YOU THOUGHT YOU WOULD. |
| 00:27:17 | THINGS START TO BALLOON ALARMINGLY. |
| 00:27:22 | IT IS DISCOURAGING. |
| 00:27:23 | THAT WAS ANOTHER DIFFICULTY. |
| 00:27:24 | I TURNED IN TWICE AS MUCH AS THE PUBLISHER ORIGINALLY ASKED FOR. |
| 00:27:30 | I HAVE NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE. |
| 00:27:34 | AND YOU NEVER KNOW HOW IT IS GOING TO END. |
| 00:27:38 | HAD A VERY HARD TIME WRAPPING IT UP. |
| 00:27:41 | I DON'T KNOW WHEN I'M DONE. |
| 00:27:43 | I WAKE UP EVERY DAY THINKING I SHOULD HAVE PUT THAT IN OR SHOULD HAVE PUT THAT DIFFERENTLY. |
| 00:27:59 | PEOPLE SAY IT IS A GOOD SIGN. |
| 00:28:02 | IF YOU'RE STILL WRITING IT IN YOUR HEAD -- >> CHRISTOPHER HICHENS, HIS MEMOIR, HITCH-22. |
| 00:28:15 | >> THIS WEEKEND ON BookTV'S INDEX, LEGAL SCHOLAR AT THE UNIVERSITY |
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