Alarms and Discursions. Гилберт Кит Честертон

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       G. K. Chesterton

      Alarms and Discursions

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664631237

Table of Contents

       Introductory: On Gargoyles

       I

       II

       III

       The Surrender of a Cockney

       The Nightmare

       The Telegraph Poles

       A Drama of Dolls

       The Man and His Newspaper

       The Appetite of Earth

       Simmons and the Social Tie

       Cheese

       The Red Town

       The Furrows

       The Philosophy of Sight-seeing

       A Criminal Head

       The Wrath of the Roses

       The Gold of Glastonbury

       The Futurists

       Dukes

       The Glory of Grey

       The Anarchist

       How I found the Superman

       The New House

       The Wings of Stone

       The Three Kinds of Men

       The Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds

       The Field of Blood

       The Strangeness of Luxury

       The Triumph of the Donkey

       The Wheel

       Five Hundred and Fifty-five

       Ethandune

       The Flat Freak

       The Garden of the Sea

       The Sentimentalist

       The White Horses

       The Long Bow

       The Modern Scrooge

       The High Plains

       The Chorus

       A Romance of the Marshes

Introductory: On Gargoyles

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      Alone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. It lay there, scoured by ancient rains or striped by recent fungus, but still looking like the head of some huge dragon slain by a primeval hero. And as I looked at it, I thought of the meaning of the grotesque, and passed into some symbolic reverie of the three great stages of art.

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      Once upon a time there lived upon an island a merry and innocent people, mostly shepherds and tillers of the earth. They were republicans, like all primitive and simple souls; they talked over their affairs under a tree, and the nearest approach they had to a personal ruler was a sort of priest or white witch who said their prayers for them. They worshipped the sun, not idolatrously, but as the golden crown of the god whom all such infants see almost as plainly as the sun.

      Now this priest was told by his people to build a great tower, pointing to the sky in salutation of the Sun-god; and he pondered long and heavily before he picked his materials. For he was resolved to use nothing that was not almost as clear and exquisite as sunshine itself; he would use nothing that was not washed as white as