Sentence of the week

Christopher Hitchens in a Vanity Fair excerpt from Hitch 22: A Memoir, on his friendship with Martin Amis:

My looks by then had in any case declined to the point where only women would go to bed with me.

The photo above is captioned (left to right): Christopher Hitchens, James Fenton, and Martin Amis at Sacré-Coeur, in Paris, 1979.

Two thoughts:

1. Hitchens has eaten more pies over the years than Amis. As has Fenton.

2. Stupidly I had never realised, despite reading many of his books, that Fenton was gay. In this photo the shoulder placement and shoe position say it all. D’oh.

Monitor: Penny Wise