Look, I know the man is far from being One Of Us, but he sure can turn a

sentence. A reader:

“Dear Derb—I know exactly what you mean about Christopher Hitchens. To

quote from his review of The Honorable Schoolboy in the Nov 2004

Atlantic: ‘I daresay that one can claim, without running overmuch risk of

contradiction, to have been reading Frederick Taylor’s recent history of the

obliteration of Dresden with no intention of looking for laughs.’

“I loved this line so much I re-read it several times just for the sheer

pleasure of it.”