1 | Ethics and Morals…The American eagle
Guideline: Things Fiction Can’t Do
2 | Phoebe: The Business…So I went round there
3 | Jerusalem…Bitter furies of complexity
Guideline: Literature and Violence
4 | The Night of Shame…She’s scaring me, Hitch
Transitional: The Sources of the Being
1 | France in the Time of Iraq 1: Anti-américain
2 | September 11 1: The day after
3 | September 11 2: The day before the day after
4 | September 11 3: The days after the day after
5 | France in the Time of Iraq 2: Shock and Awe
Interludial: Memos to my reader, and ‘Oktober’
PART III—DISSOLUTIONS: ANTEPENULTIMATE
2 | Hitchens Goes to Houston…He’s an ox
3 | Politics and the Bedroom…Not left wing enough
4 | Hitchens Stays On in Houston…The synchrotron
5 | And say why it never worked for me…Invidia
Preamble: The Fire on New Year’s Eve
1 | Christopher: Everyone Pray for Hitchens Day
3 | Philip: The Love of His Life
How to Write: Impersonal Forces
How to Write: The Uses of Variety
5 | London: Phoebe at Seventy-Five
PART V—ULTIMATE: DOING THE DYING
‘It seemed that out of battle I escaped’
Afterthought: Masada and the Dead Sea