tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post7417013917179092215..comments2024-01-10T06:40:26.416-05:00Comments on Chesterton and Friends: GKC ITN: Romance, Procession, and TravelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post-34009944941152291462008-07-17T16:16:00.000-04:002008-07-17T16:16:00.000-04:00I'm rather sure the story is legendary - consider,...I'm rather sure the story is legendary - consider, for instance the unlikelihood of his wife Frances (highly practical by all accounts) being rendered ineffectual.<BR/> Most important, however: whose children? Gilbert and Frances sorrowed that they were unable to have children!!<BR/><BR/>Yet, the IDEA of setting out, at once - and in despite of difficulties - on an adventure (GKC definition: "An inconvenience considered in the right spirit") IS truly Chestertonian. What he would not approve is the foisting of inconvenience upon others purely for his amusement. <BR/>Perhaps the story was originally meant either to illustrate or to satirize that idea?<BR/><BR/>Yours in Christ, Rex KochanskiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11415684.post-10700124250533950942008-07-04T06:52:00.000-04:002008-07-04T06:52:00.000-04:00I'm inclined to think that last one's a fanciful l...I'm inclined to think that last one's a fanciful legend, too. It strains credulity to assert that Gilbert would ever care in the slightest that he was about to be late for a train, or that being on time for a train was even something that could happen except by some sort of happy accident.Nick Milnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15677481833245634421noreply@blogger.com