G. K. Chesterton

02-15-2003, 09:15 PM

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G. K. Chesterton

Is anybody else out there a Chesterton fan?

I had read The Blue Cross a while ago, but re-read it recently and the next two stories in The Innocence of Father Brown, wondering how he would follow that first, perfect story. He followed up the story of the French policeman, Valentin, in a very surprising way, and in the story of the 12 Fisherman, finally had Flambeau repent. How wonderful! I look forward to reading more of the Father Brown stories.

There is also a site out there dedicated to all Chesterton's work. I explored it tonight a little bit -- what a remarkable and diverse intellect and wit the man had.

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Thus one should consider: "Being angry with another person, what can you do to him? Can you destroy his virtue and his other good qualities? Have you not come to your present state by your own actions, and will also go hence according to your own actions? Anger towards another is just as if someone wishing to hit another person takes hold of glowing coals, or a heated iron-rod, or of excrement. And, in the same way, if the other person is angry with you, what can he do to you? Can he destroy your virtue and your other good qualities? He too has come to his present state by his own actions and will go hence according to his own actions. Like an unaccepted gift or like a handful of dirt thrown against the wind, his anger will fall back on his own head."
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