Classics Considered

Tag: Chesterton

  • Tales of the Long Bow: Eccentrics and Impossibilities

    Chesterton’s England, ca. 100 years ago, is home to a de facto group of patriots, a Robin Hood renaissance.  There’s the lawyer, Mr. Robert Owen Hood, whose name itself harkens back to the leader of the Merry Men.  His friend Colonel Crane is a quiet soul with a fiery past, plus a penchant for studying […]

  • Some Bookish Pictures

    Every so often, I get an urge to do something crafty.  “Crafty” here means having to do with crafts, not cunning plans (though it may amount to the same thing).  Today was one of those days, so I stopped by ye olde curiosity shoppe Dollar Tree and picked up some frames, because I’m cheap that […]

  • Wit and Wisdom in Chesterton’s Heretics

    This year’s reading is off to a good start, not so much in terms of speed (work and other activities have put the brakes on that) but in terms of content.  I’ve just finished G. K. Chesterton’s Heretics, a light book for heavy hearts of little-‘o’ orthodox Christians who happen to be classic literature nerds.  […]

  • Wednesday Quote: Souls

    “I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.” A great Chesterton quote from a book of […]