Cheese with Chesterton
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My forthcoming work in five volumes, "The Neglect of Cheese in European Literature" is a work of such unprecedented and laborious detail that it is doubtful if I shall live to finish it.
Someday this will be the home of a podcast, if I ever have time.
Someday this will be the home of a podcast, if I ever have time.
1/3 It's popular to call Chesterton a conservative, and he was for his day, but one must remember that the progressives of his day are not the progressives of now. Those were progressives of vivisection, social Darwinism, rampant industrialism and capitalism.
March 6, 2025 at 4:36 AM
1/3 It's popular to call Chesterton a conservative, and he was for his day, but one must remember that the progressives of his day are not the progressives of now. Those were progressives of vivisection, social Darwinism, rampant industrialism and capitalism.
Oh man, what Chesterton didn't know was coming...
"In short, it has long been recognised that America was an asylum. It is only since Prohibition that it has looked a little like a lunatic asylum."
"In short, it has long been recognised that America was an asylum. It is only since Prohibition that it has looked a little like a lunatic asylum."
March 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Oh man, what Chesterton didn't know was coming...
"In short, it has long been recognised that America was an asylum. It is only since Prohibition that it has looked a little like a lunatic asylum."
"In short, it has long been recognised that America was an asylum. It is only since Prohibition that it has looked a little like a lunatic asylum."
1/2 "A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right to do is to laugh at it as incomprehensible, and then criticise it as if he comprehended it. "
March 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
1/2 "A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right to do is to laugh at it as incomprehensible, and then criticise it as if he comprehended it. "
"There seems to be a certain simplicity of mind about these answers; and it is reassuring to know that anarchists and polygamists are so pure and good that the police have only to ask them questions and they are certain to tell no lies."
What I Saw in America, "What Is America?"
What I Saw in America, "What Is America?"
"I like to think of the foreign desperado, seeking to slip into America with official papers under official protection, and sitting down to write with a beautiful gravity, 'I am an anarchist. I hate you all and wish to destroy you.' " -- What I Saw in America
March 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"There seems to be a certain simplicity of mind about these answers; and it is reassuring to know that anarchists and polygamists are so pure and good that the police have only to ask them questions and they are certain to tell no lies."
What I Saw in America, "What Is America?"
What I Saw in America, "What Is America?"
"I like to think of the foreign desperado, seeking to slip into America with official papers under official protection, and sitting down to write with a beautiful gravity, 'I am an anarchist. I hate you all and wish to destroy you.' " -- What I Saw in America
March 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
"I like to think of the foreign desperado, seeking to slip into America with official papers under official protection, and sitting down to write with a beautiful gravity, 'I am an anarchist. I hate you all and wish to destroy you.' " -- What I Saw in America
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“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.” ~ G.K. Chesterton
November 18, 2024 at 9:16 PM
“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.” ~ G.K. Chesterton
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If all the trees were bread and cheese there would be considerable deforestation in any part of England where I was living.
The only other poet I can think of just now who seems to have had some sensibility on the point was the nameless author of the nursery rhyme which says: "If all
the trees were bread and cheese"--which is, indeed a rich and gigantic vision of the higher gluttony.
the trees were bread and cheese"--which is, indeed a rich and gigantic vision of the higher gluttony.
Virgil, if I remember right, refers to [cheese] several times, but with too much Roman restraint. He does not let himself go on cheese.
July 15, 2024 at 10:46 PM
If all the trees were bread and cheese there would be considerable deforestation in any part of England where I was living.
We think of the life of the Middle Ages as a dance of death, full of devils and deadly sins, lepers and burning heretics. But this was not the life of the Middle Ages, but the death of the Middle Ages. It is the spirit of Louis XI and Richard III, not of Louis IX and Edward I.
March 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
We think of the life of the Middle Ages as a dance of death, full of devils and deadly sins, lepers and burning heretics. But this was not the life of the Middle Ages, but the death of the Middle Ages. It is the spirit of Louis XI and Richard III, not of Louis IX and Edward I.
If all the trees were bread and cheese there would be considerable deforestation in any part of England where I was living.
The only other poet I can think of just now who seems to have had some sensibility on the point was the nameless author of the nursery rhyme which says: "If all
the trees were bread and cheese"--which is, indeed a rich and gigantic vision of the higher gluttony.
the trees were bread and cheese"--which is, indeed a rich and gigantic vision of the higher gluttony.
Virgil, if I remember right, refers to [cheese] several times, but with too much Roman restraint. He does not let himself go on cheese.
July 15, 2024 at 10:46 PM
If all the trees were bread and cheese there would be considerable deforestation in any part of England where I was living.
The only other poet I can think of just now who seems to have had some sensibility on the point was the nameless author of the nursery rhyme which says: "If all
the trees were bread and cheese"--which is, indeed a rich and gigantic vision of the higher gluttony.
the trees were bread and cheese"--which is, indeed a rich and gigantic vision of the higher gluttony.
Virgil, if I remember right, refers to [cheese] several times, but with too much Roman restraint. He does not let himself go on cheese.
July 15, 2024 at 10:46 PM
The only other poet I can think of just now who seems to have had some sensibility on the point was the nameless author of the nursery rhyme which says: "If all
the trees were bread and cheese"--which is, indeed a rich and gigantic vision of the higher gluttony.
the trees were bread and cheese"--which is, indeed a rich and gigantic vision of the higher gluttony.
Virgil, if I remember right, refers to [cheese] several times, but with too much Roman restraint. He does not let himself go on cheese.
July 15, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Virgil, if I remember right, refers to [cheese] several times, but with too much Roman restraint. He does not let himself go on cheese.