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A rare moment of prescience. In Friday\u2019s Independent, I released a brief but heartfelt cry of anguish<\/a> about the narcissistic doings of Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens, Anna Ford, Clive James and any other ageing literati who belonged to an informal dining club \u00a0back in the 1970s. I mentioned at some point that the on-stage conversation of the two old pals, Amis and Hitchens, at the 2001 Hay Festival was remembered as \u201cone of the most embarrassing displays of mutual brown-nosing in modern literary history\u201d<\/p>\n

Two days later, an extract form Hitchens\u2019s memoir, the self-importantly named Hitch-22<\/em>, appeared in the Sunday Times. The subject was \u2013 what else \u2013\u00a0 his old pal, and how brilliant they both were.<\/p>\n

After the two met while in their twenties \u201cthere began an inexhaustible conversation about womanhood in all its forms.\u201d Example? \u201cThe crudest thing which that comes to mind \u00a0– because it is such a clich\u00e9 of male fantasy\u00a0 – was our word, annexed from Clive James, for the possibility of enjoying two ladies at the same time. The term for this remote but intriguing contingency, which I still think was at least partially redeemed by its inventiveness, was \u2018a car-wash\u2019. \u201c<\/p>\n

This is hilarious stuff, with its trade-mark conflation of gamy content with flatulent prose (prostitution in Hitchen-speak are \u201cthe unlawful carnal knowledge industry\u201d). Then it is back to yet more public \u00a0brown-nosing of his old friend.<\/p>\n

An altogether better and more amusing commentary on Amis is to be found in Mark Ramsden\u2019s brilliant sax-and- soundbite \u00a0mash-up Martin Amis Jihad Rap<\/a>\u00a0on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A rare moment of prescience. In Friday\u2019s Independent, I released a brief but heartfelt cry of anguish about the narcissistic doings of Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens, Anna Ford, Clive James and any other ageing literati who belonged to an informal dining club \u00a0back in the 1970s. 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