Tuesday, October 30, 2007

GKC at Christmas

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Something new every year. This year, it's the GKC Christmas tree ornament . It's advertised in the new edition of Gilbert Magazine ....
Monday, October 29, 2007

New Gilbert is Here

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And it's a fine-looking 10th Anniversary edition. Very well done, thick (58 pages) enhanced cover. From the letters to the editor: Four ...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

October

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"October" by Hilaire Belloc Look, how those steep woods on the mountain's face Burn, burn against the sunset; now the cold Inv...

Belloc's Map of Sussex from "The Four Men"

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Hilaire Belloc's map of Sussex from "The Four Men", worthy of Tolkien: (click it for a larger view)

Belloc clerihew

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Hilaire Belloc walked off the end of a dock but being in the midst of a debate he failed to recognize his fate.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Micro Belloc

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Last week, someone (in this blog's comments section, I believe) recommended that we read Belloc's The Four Men while hoisting a ta...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

without a rag of excuse

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"[I]f a healthy man lies in bed, let him do it without a rag of excuse; then he will get up a healthy man. If he does it for some secon...
Saturday, October 20, 2007

"You should see him catch buns in his mouf"

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an article by Gilbert Adair, all about our favorite big man, in today's Guardian There was never just one GK Chesterton. There was Chest...
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Friday, October 19, 2007

Another Broken Nail

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When I got bumped to third shift I knew that would put me a little out of touch with the news or at least somewhat behind the curve. But why...
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Chesterton Sighting

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At WaPo , via Ignatius Scoop . Carl Olson is a bit harsh on the WaPo writer. At least the writer got the quote right.
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Belloc Biography (Rochester Chesterton Conference 4)

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Shaw, Belloc and some other guy Among the many pleasures of attending the Rochester Chesterton Conference two weeks ago was meeting Joseph P...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Belloc Redux?

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The Atlantic's literary editor, Benjamin Schwartz, summarizes Cambridge historian Eamon Duffy's 1992 book, The Stripping of the Alt...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Classic GKC

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We find in the Little Brown Book of Anecdotes that on one occasion when Hilaire Belloc demanded that a public attack on Chesterton by Georg...
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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Some things....

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I recently read Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norell, and found it one of the most entertaining novels Ive picked up in a long, long time. I was ...
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Rochester Chesterton Conference 3

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I first heard of Father Leo Hetzler back in the dark ages when I was a student at St. John Fisher College. Several friends recommended that ...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Big Business Beer

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And on the other end of the spectrum ( from the previous post ) we have in the news today the Big Business Beer (anti-distributist) getting ...
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The Culture of Beer

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Majoring in international business at the University of Tulsa, [Eric] Marshall spent a semester studying in Germany. "And I just fell i...
Monday, October 08, 2007

Rochester Chesterton Conference 2

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The October 6 Chesterton Conference in Rochester - Conversion of Heart - focused on converts. Those converts were St. Paul, St. Augustine, J...
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Saturday, October 06, 2007

Good post from a blog I just happened into.

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Very, very good. Very Chestertonian . Found this blogsurfing

Rochester Chesterton Conference 1

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What do you call a gathering of Chestertonians? A flock? A covey A school? A congregation? A conference? How about well-read!