Tuesday, February 28, 2006

A Plug for Belloc

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A friend who deserves more attention: "Today Belloc remains a writer who has not been tried and found wanting, but who has simply not b...
Monday, February 27, 2006

The Coloured Lands - Third Sortie

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Today we are in for a real treat. The six plates that follow are from a fully-illustrated piece from The Coloured Lands entitled, "The...
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Better a Lender Than a Borrower Be

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On January 5th I posted Beerbohm: Sundaram v. Epstein , tried contacting Sundaram, and then dropped an email to Mr. Epstein when Sundaram di...
Sunday, February 26, 2006

Art for Art's Sake

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An artist who baked a life-size model of her own naked body out of bread dough will watch her audience eat it at an exhibition. I don’t know...
Saturday, February 25, 2006

Heretics

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Complete copy of Heretics , all on one page . Great for searching.
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Friday, February 24, 2006

New York Treat

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One of New Yorks' finest, Dawn Eden, listed some of her favorite GKC quotes at her blog today .

Last Friday Before Lent: Feeling Thirsty?

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"November 30, 1929 issue of the London Illustrated News . Has a full page article by G.K. Chesterton, a full page Guinness Beer ad, a f...

Seriously Good News

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Fr. Robert Barron, in an article for the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago newspaper, gives his framework for effectively spreading the Good N...
Thursday, February 23, 2006

Don't Miss: To A Modern Poet

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Make sure to read Chesterton's poem To A Modern Poet . "Dr. Thursday" has posted it to his blog, GKC's Favourite , and re...

Same Stories, Different Decade

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“News is old things happening to new people.” Newspaperman Malcolm Muggeridge penned this warning to self-assured newsmakers who ignore hist...
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Chesterton is EVERYWHERE

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Where did I find a Chesterton quote this week? On a girlie site, dedicated to "tasteful nudes of beautiful women." And no, I didn...
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

GKC and Porn

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GKC invoked in the fight against porn, which is, in my opinion, one of the greatest scourages of our culture . "All healthy men, ancien...
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Monday, February 20, 2006

More from The Coloured Lands

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As promised, we will continue our excursion into The Coloured Lands with a series of caricatures entitled "Immortal Idiots," as w...
Friday, February 17, 2006

GKC in IT Week

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Patrick Forsyth, writing in IT Week , uses the Chesterton Quote For All Seasons to promote time management: G. K. Chesterton once wrote that...
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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Some scans from The Coloured Lands

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As promised, here are some images from Chesterton's The Coloured Lands that have never before been seen online (or so my most ardent se...
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Sassoon: Friend of Belloc

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IgnatiusInsight.com recently posted selections from Joseph Pearce's Flowers of Heaven: One Thousand Years of Christian Verse . An excer...
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Max's Favorite

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On March 15 and 16, 1954, Edmund Wilson called on Max Beerbohm in Beerbohm's villa at Rapallo. Wilson found that Chesterton remained a f...
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Fr. Brown Book

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"The Blue Cross" Study Edition by Nancy Carpentier Brown. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of mystery stories and, in fact, oth...
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Monday, February 13, 2006

Great news

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It's good news for me, because it gives me enough content for the next month of posting, at least . It's good news for you for the ...
Saturday, February 11, 2006

Belloc Biblio

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Wikipedia has (what appears to be) a pretty good bibliography of Belloc's works . Looks thorough.