Thursday, September 22, 2011
"Rethinking Chesterton"
There are not many books that meant more to me, when I was in college, than G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy and The Dumb Ox. I must have read hundreds of his essays, poems, books, and novels over the years. What a great writer, and what (I think) a perceptive thinker. Entertaining, too! Anyway, I enjoyed this piece, "Rethinking Chesterton," in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Chesterton, we learn, was a "beery supporter of small-scale government." Right on! BSSSG's of the world unite!
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/09/rethinking-chesterton.html
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by coincidence, i just read "the dumb ox" this summer, opened it with very high hopes ('shaking hands', like you open any book about a person you love) and was diappointed in the end
it seemed to me that the text targeting A.'s character lacked substance (A.'s thought) to an extent to be called a journalistic or even political piece
of course, there are a few observations i couldn't agree more with (e.g., how much we miss the word 'ens')