Saturday, July 30, 2005

More Clerihew

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley was a lifelong friend of G.K. Chesterton, and they shared a love for mystery novels and poetry. GKC dedicated his 1...
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Friday, July 29, 2005

Fun on Friday: a Clerihew

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Click HERE for a backgrounder on the Clerihew. G.K. Chesterton called it a "severe and stately form of Free Verse" in his Autobio...
Thursday, July 28, 2005

Fitzgerald a GKC Friend?

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A collection of the letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald shows a number of references to Chesterton as the writer struggled in 1917 with his unsuc...

Thursday on Thursday, no.4

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"It is things going right, that is poetical. Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of...

Thursday Around the Radio

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The Mercury Theatre on the Air has the Orson Welles production of GKC's The Man Who Was Thursday (September 5, 1938) available for fre...
Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Happy Birthday

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To Hilaire Belloc. He would have been 135 today.
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The Gospel According to America

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Zachry Kincaid, director of The Matthew's House Project , reviews David Dark’s The Gospel According to America: A Medit...
Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Twelve Favorites

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My favorite excerpts from GKC's Twelve Types . One from each chapter: Charlotte Bronte : The faculty of being shy is the first and the m...

GKC on GBS

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I fear that C&F may have lost readers due to my post yesterday. Council on Drinking referenced a news article quoting George Bernard S...
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Monday, July 25, 2005

Council on Drinking

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Should we have a drink or two before work? Should we have the taxpayers cover our tab? These are questions being asked in Sydney, Australi...

Islam and the First Amendment

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This excerpt is from the article "Islam and the First Amendment" by Thomas E. Brewton; published July 22 at Intellectual Conserva...
Friday, July 22, 2005

New in Blogland

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Thursday is a new blog subtitled "for all those chasing after Sunday on this sometimes absurd adventure." The author has begun ...
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Thursday, July 21, 2005

Nonsense Verse

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Everyman has issued a collection of nonsense verse. From a review of same: No one does just nonsense: That would be inhuman. It works best a...

Delight of Truth

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Ignatius Insight has a feature article this month by Fr Schall: Chesterton and the Delight of Truth . LINK This essay might be about the ...
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Thursday on Thursday, no.3

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"What is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both b...
Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Fr. Brown @ Hogwarts

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From the article "Dumbledore's death in the style of GK Chesterton" published HERE by the Guardian: "But how did you kno...

Democracy of the Dead

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We didn't know about this GKC Blog: Democracy of the Dead . It's worth a look.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Using Science to Promote Morality

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Chesterton wrote in 1905 about addressing the problems of impurity and terrorism. 100 years later his writing is more pertinent than ever. A...
Monday, July 18, 2005

Patron Saint of the Jolly

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A serious advent wreath making instructor and former singer writes about a rather disturbing appearance of the Ghost of G.K. Chesterton. Du...
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The Difference Between Belloc and GKC

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In his Hilaire Belloc: A Memoir , J. B. Morton quotes Chesterton on the difference between Belloc and himself. He said, "I like gargoyl...
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