I understand that Hitchens is probably bored with people's obsession with his boozing, but this is his memoir, and apart from his swift and spirited dispatches, he's best known for his swift dispatch of spirits.
Even Arsenic and Old Lace turns on the thought that for some lonely men the only hope is a swift dispatch with a glass of poisoned elderberry wine.
The only deterrent is a swift dispatch to a closed prison for captured escapees but that didn't put off the 14,000 people who, according to a BBC Panorama investigation last year, absconded from open prisons in the past decade.
More pointedly, there will be others privately querying how the IRGC failed to see this coming, and the swift dispatch of "advisers" suggests that too much focus on Syria has led them to neglect their own backyard.
It has been a tumultuous week for the Vatican, with Lombardi's speedy statement on Saturday the latest in a series of swift dispatches on the pope's perceived view on gay relationships.
The authorities' quick response once the scandals came to light and the alleged culprits' swift dispatch to jail shows, he says, an "independent judiciary at work" and a consensus in Congress that due process must be followed to the letter.In any case, Mr Condo argues, what Costa Ricans are now seeing "is not the tip of the iceberg, but the iceberg itself".
Flinging himself on one desk or another, Mr. West wins us over from the start with his mischievous grin, and anyone with any experience of higher education will smile at the swift dispatch with which this Butley sends his literature students packing: Wordsworth can wait.
Until revolt began to simmer in Libya in mid-February, the Arab world's young and disaffected protesters seemed sustained by the vision of a future in which, like dominoes, their oppressors would tumble with the same swift dispatch as Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt.
He was described in diplomatic reports as shrewd and affable, deliberately slow of speech yet loquacious, expressing himself in an elegant Italian or Latin with learned allusions, and scrupulously refraining from tying himself down to a definite "yes" or "no" until the final settlement of an issue but then able to act with swift, uncompromising dispatch.
Justice is swift — some cases are dispatched in less than 30 seconds — with paperwork swooshing down a wooden slide from the judge's bench to her clerk.
