*I'm gonna miss stuff like this when it's not around any more.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/hitchens-koestler
"... in his last two decades Koestler abandoned every kind of scruple and objectivity and became successively bewitched by “theories” of levitation, ESP, telepathy, and UFOs. He was enthralled by Timothy Leary and played for a sucker by the paranormal spoon-bender Uri Geller. The sleep of his reason did not even bring forth monsters: poor Koestler simply gave a fair wind and his once-valued imprimatur to a succession of pathetic quacks and mountebanks."
*Yeah, that was the part that endeared Arthur Koestler to science-fiction writers. That, and the synchronicity, because synchronicity is possibly the coolest far-fetched plot-salvent ever thought up.
