Archive: G.K. Chesterton category
I love good quotes. I also love the work of C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and G.K. Chesterton.
My cold-from-Styx is nocturnal. It's still awful during the day, mind you, but around ten o'clock each night it flares up into a hideous, shrieking banshee with blood on its agenda, tormenting me all night long with spasms of coughs that furrow my throat with glass-sharded sickles, snagging my ...
I've been reading "Ethics in Elfland," one of the chapters in G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. Quite interesting reading. :) You can read it on Blank Slate. For example:
If we attach great importance to the opinion of ordinary men in great unanimity when we are dealing with ...
This morning as I made breakfast, I decided to try listening to the The Man Who Was Thursday instead of to music. And I did, for about 20 minutes, and it was better than I expected (the experience, that is -- I've already read the book). Listening ...
I've started reading Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and it's good (though it seems to have a slightly different tone from Alice in Wonderland -- I can't quite put my finger on it, but I like it). The absurdity is very well-done, in a Chestertonian fashion. With things ...
If you go to ChristianAudio.com and click on the big orange button labeled "Free Download," you can get a nice audiobook of G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. (It's five MP3s of about 35 megs each.)
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From the blog of the American Chesterton Society, this bit by Chesterton on journalism:
"Nothing looks more neat and regular than a newspaper, with its parallel columns, its mechanical printing, its detailed facts and figures, its responsible, polysyllabic leading articles. Nothing, as a matter of fact, goes every night through ...
