Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Pearced by a Swordstick

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This is from a recent article about author Joseph Pearce. He will be speaking at a CSL conference in Lakeland, Florida this weekend. His t...
Wednesday, November 23, 2005

GKC and the Puritans

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G.K. Chesterton infuriated some Americans back in 1930 when he said, while visiting New York on Thanksgiving Day, that the English should in...
Tuesday, November 22, 2005

LibriVox

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I recently found the LibriVox website. LibriVox is a volunteer project that subtitles itself as "acoustical liberation of books in th...
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Lewis on Fairy Tales & True Myth

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Fairy Tales I saw how (fairy) stories could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why di...
Monday, November 21, 2005

Chesterton's Alphabet

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Many thanks to Nick Milne; he has transcribed Chesterton's "An Alphabet" from Collected Nonsense and Light Verse . A is an Ag...
Friday, November 18, 2005

Belloc on Men & Monkeys

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The Marmozet The species Man and Marmozet     Are intimately linked; The Marmozet survives as yet,     But Men are all extinct. [Hilaire Bel...
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Thursday, November 17, 2005

A Pity

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The water tower on the top of Campden Hill, the structure that figured so decisively in the battles of The Napoleon of Notting Hill , was ra...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Complement the Papal Writings in 2007

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We [ Wineskin Media ] are pleased to announce our 2007 Social Justice Engagement Calendar , soon to be available from IHS Press [ link to I...
Tuesday, November 15, 2005

GKC: Not a Self-Help Guru

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It is perfectly obvious that in any decent occupation (such as bricklaying or writing books) there are only two ways (in any special sense) ...
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Monday, November 14, 2005

Lewis and Narnia

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Pretty good feature piece at NYT about LWW and Lewis , though I have two quibbles: [T]here are some Hollywood observers who seem to believ...
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Friday, November 11, 2005

Garry Wills recommends...

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Garry Wills was recently interviewed by Sam Hodges of the Dallas Morning News : DMN : You draw on St. Augustine, G.K. Chesterton and John ...
Thursday, November 10, 2005

Progress...

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-- by Zach Brissett of In Toon With the World , Small Pax , and Southern Appeal

Atheist vs. Syme

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"The Raving Atheist" takes on The Man Who Was Thursday .

Thursday on Thursday, no.19

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"You are a very fine fellow. You can believe in a sanity which is not merely your sanity." - Gabriel Syme, in GKC's The Man Wh...

Illustrious St. Paul's

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Many Chestertonians will recall that Milton had once been a pupil at Chesterton's school, St. Paul's, but perhaps fewer are aware th...
Wednesday, November 09, 2005

New GKC Blog

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Brand new GKC blog from Gilbert! contributor, Kyro Lantsberger.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Nick Milne, Chestertonian Blogger

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Nick Milne, Welcome to blogland! Nick is the college recipient of this year's Gilbert & Frances Scholarship . His essay " On ...
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Friday, November 04, 2005

Google Print: Belloc on Beer

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I concur with Eric that Google Print is "pretty neat." Here are the results of a search for 'beer' in Hilaire Belloc...

For Friday: Guinness & Friendship

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Chesterton wrote the column "Our Notebook" for The Illustrated London News from 1905 to 1936. Here is an advertisement from a 193...

Chesterton the Prophet

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G.K. Chesterton presented a lecture to the Lyceum Club in 1923. The Chesterton Review recently republished some notes taken during the lec...