Water

[wardatyork]

When I was an intern at The Nation in New York, Christopher Hitchens was on the staff. I think he's a fabulous writer, but what I remember about him was the office story that he paid for his mistress's abortion with his wife's credit card. Anyway here he is being drowned. Two stunning things: it takes five seconds. And who on earth invented this? I

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[rhodri]

Christ. That's grim.

[loosechanj]

But we only do that to people who deserve it!

[revolution_grrl]

When I was an intern at The Nation in New York

That's a fucking brilliant way to be able to being a sentence.

[wardatyork]

It was a rather good way to start a career, too. They're very nice people at the Nation. Though I haven't read it since.