Father Brown: Beneath the foolish-seeming exterior there lies an analytical, supremely sympathetic man.
Lord Peter Wimsey: Beneath the foolish-seeming exterior there lies an analytical, supremely sympathetic man. Beneath him there lies another very silly man, except this one reads Donne.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
Now that the holidays I have passed, I can post some of the creative projects I was working on that were secret presents for my family!
Today's project is a hand-bound copy of The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, made as a gift for my little brother. This is his favorite book, and he requested wide margins for note-taking and asked me to use the titling from the original 1908 printing. With that in mind, I also took other inspiration from that printing, such as the red full-fabric cover and the font choices.
The text of this book was taken from Project Gutenberg (ebook 1695) and typeset in Microsoft Word by me.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
-The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
-The Napoleon of Notting Hill, G.K. Chesterton
Neil Josten let his cigarette burn to the filter without taking a drag.
Random person: "I can't believe how wild the Narnia books are"
Me, sitting on the corner with my cigarrette and my glass of wine, watching with endearment and nostalgia a person who has clearly never read Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday: *smiles*
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
~ G.K. Chesterton