Simplified, 旋转的苦行僧旋轉 (whirl) 的 ('s) 苦行 (ascetic) 僧 (monk)
旋 (revolve) 轉 (turn) 的 )'s) 苦 (suffer) 行 (do) 僧 (monk)
“Hitch-22” is far from downbeat, however. It is packed with people — everyone from William Styron, Jessica Mitford and Isaiah Berlin to Nora Ephron, Keith McNally and Hunter S. Thompson, all of whom arrive attached to good anecdotes. A generous friend, Mr. Hitchens gives most of his book’s good lines (and there are many, a good deal of them unprintable here) to the people he loves.
Those good lines including this one, from Clive James, who began a review of a Leonid Brezhnev memoir this way: “Here is a book so dull that a whirling dervish could read himself to sleep with it.... If it were read in the open air, birds would fall stunned from the sky.” Whatever the opposite of that book is, Mr. Hitchens has written it.
- In Memoir, Christopher Hitchens Looks Back, by Dwight Garner, The New York Times
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