Wednesday, April 27, 2005

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This blog is probably the best Chesterbelloc blog you're gonna find. Highly recommended. Link .
Tuesday, April 26, 2005

LA Times on Catholic Laughter

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Television jokes about the new pope generally have been lame, like this one from Jay Leno: "We have a new pope! Cardinal Ratzinger of G...
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Monday, April 25, 2005

The Amish GKC

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"[T]here is another strong objection which I, one of the laziest of all the children of Adam, have against the Leisure State. Those who...
Sunday, April 24, 2005

Citing GKC

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A reader who browses through the fourteenth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations will learn on page 918 that the General Motors pav...
Saturday, April 23, 2005

Odd Picture Selection

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Anyone know why Dale Ahlquist's picture is on the front of Joseph Pearce's Unafraid of Virginia Woolf: The Friends and Enemies of Ro...
Friday, April 22, 2005

Two Big Men

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This review earlier in Gilbert Magazine On: Orestes Brownson: Sign of Contradiction By R. A. Herrera There was a man born in the nineteenth ...
Thursday, April 21, 2005

Belloc on Advertising

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Hilaire Belloc wrote his humorous "True Advertising" essay in hope that advertising would start telling the (whole) truth. I will ...
Sunday, April 17, 2005

Laughter

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Chesterton on laughter: "It is obvious that the mind is moved by incongruity . . .". Schall on Chesterton's view on laughter: ...
Saturday, April 16, 2005

Apologies

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I'm sorry I haven't posted something every day. I've been distracted by other projects, so this one hasn't gotten the quotid...

Dawson's the New Age

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Excerpts from the first pages of Christopher Dawson's Christianity and the New Age : "The men of letters . . . turned to literature...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

A GKC Fiction

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In the September 1923 issue of The Adelphi , the biographer Hesketh Pearson published what appeared to be a verbatim report of a private qua...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Weigel and GKC

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"In his remarkable little primer, “Letters to a Young Catholic,” Mr. Weigel took his readers on a series of pilgrimages to places where...
Sunday, April 10, 2005

Two by Belloc

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We are all familiar with science’s prodigious results. Not one of them has, as yet, added to human happiness: all have been misused to the m...
Saturday, April 09, 2005

Russell Kirk

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This review appeared in Gilbert Magazine a few years ago Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind By James E. Person Jr. T...
Wednesday, April 06, 2005

On Theses and Essays

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Schall on Chesterton From Midwest Chesterton News , October, 1996. Just when I thought that I had the importance and delight of the essay pr...
Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Heavy GKC

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In 1985 the heavy-metal rock band Iron Maiden released an album with the cheerful title, Live after Death. One of the songs included therein...
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Sunday, April 03, 2005

Belloc on Our Blood

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"Whatever is buried right into our blood from immemorial habit that we must be certain to do if we are to fairly happy (of course no gr...
Saturday, April 02, 2005

GKC Poetry

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For those who missed it, The American Conservative last year (2/16/04) ran a nice piece on GKC's poetry. Among choice passages, "I...
Friday, April 01, 2005

A Little Waugh

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Drunken Brideshead Revisited Sebastian Flyte: a young man with a sense of his English nobility and the oppressive air of dignity that title ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2005

GKC Web

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Here's a link to GKC books on the web . Could be great for researching that GKC quote you can't quite remember.