Hitchens on Martin Amis - .....Martin had a period of relishing The Boston thug-writer, George V. Higgins, author of The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Higgins characters had an infectious way of saying inna and onna , so Martin would say, for example, I think this lunch should be onna Hitch, or I heard he wasnt useful inna sack. Simple pleasures , you may say, but linguistic sinew is acquired in this fashion and he would not dump a trope, until he chewed all the flesh and pulp of it and was left with only the pith and pits..... Thus there arrived a day when Park Lane played host to a fancy new American Hotel with the no less fancy name of The Inn on The Park and he suggested a high-priced cocktail there for no better reason than that he could instruct the cab driver to park inna Inn onna Park. This near-palindrome (as I now think of it) gave us much innocent pleasure. Hysterically funny again...
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 17:17:02 +0000
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