Comments on: What is a deipnosophist? http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:11:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Niall http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/#comment-223213 Niall Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:16:25 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/#comment-223213 Hmmm........I don't regard Hitchens as 'smart' JC. Bombastic perhaps, and maybe smart as in Alec, but that's about it. Hmmm……..I don’t regard Hitchens as ’smart’ JC. Bombastic perhaps, and maybe smart as in Alec, but that’s about it.

]]> By: Nicholas Gruen http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/#comment-222212 Nicholas Gruen Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:59:54 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/#comment-222212 The author doesn't use five words where one would do. He uses words you (and I) don't know the meaning of. Which can be fun - at least if they're good words. The author doesn’t use five words where one would do. He uses words you (and I) don’t know the meaning of. Which can be fun - at least if they’re good words.

]]> By: Jacques Chester http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/#comment-222164 Jacques Chester Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:09:56 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/#comment-222164 The upshot is that the author wishes he was as smart as Hitchens. The upshot is that the author wishes he was as smart as Hitchens.

]]> By: Niall http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/#comment-222157 Niall Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:01:18 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/#comment-222157 I lose interest in articles which use five words where one would do. What's the upshot? I lose interest in articles which use five words where one would do. What’s the upshot?

]]> By: Nicholas Gruen http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/#comment-221852 Nicholas Gruen Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:37:34 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/#comment-221852 Yes, I had meant to imply that in what I'd written, but was a bit too <em>sotto voce </em>about it. I thought he was lightly sending Hitch up with his choice of style. Yes, I had meant to imply that in what I’d written, but was a bit too sotto voce about it. I thought he was lightly sending Hitch up with his choice of style.

]]> By: Chris Lloyd http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/#comment-221727 Chris Lloyd Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:46:15 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/01/10/what-is-a-deipnosophist/#comment-221727 This Neil Fitzgerald isn’t a shabby wordsmith himself. I particularly loved the following descriptions of Hitchens. <blockquote>Red-eyed from a continual cocktail hour and spoiling for an intellectual ruckus.</blockquote> <blockquote>He bides his time, sucking in his top lip, drawing breath and failing to suppress snorts of indignation or derision. A cartoon bull, he claws the earth with his hooves as the toreador waves a red flag in his face.</blockquote> This Neil Fitzgerald isn’t a shabby wordsmith himself. I particularly loved the following descriptions of Hitchens.

Red-eyed from a continual cocktail hour and spoiling for an intellectual ruckus.

He bides his time, sucking in his top lip, drawing breath and failing to suppress snorts of indignation or derision. A cartoon bull, he claws the earth with his hooves as the toreador waves a red flag in his face.

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