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Plato to MacDonald to Chesterton, Tolkien and the Boys in the Pub.
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Postby rusmeister » July 7th, 2008, 2:06 pm

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Postby rusmeister » July 7th, 2008, 2:17 pm

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Postby Karen » July 7th, 2008, 2:24 pm

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Postby rusmeister » July 8th, 2008, 5:09 am

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Postby Karen » July 8th, 2008, 12:44 pm

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Postby JRosemary » July 9th, 2008, 3:46 am

[repeat]Everything Karen just said [/repeat]

Yeah, that!

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Postby rusmeister » July 9th, 2008, 7:55 pm

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Postby Karen » July 9th, 2008, 8:23 pm

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Postby rusmeister » July 10th, 2008, 4:17 am

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Postby gameld » July 10th, 2008, 7:37 pm

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Postby rusmeister » July 11th, 2008, 6:06 am

Thanks, gameld.

I would also add that, in my opinion, GKC doesn't get enough credit for forgiving his enemies - the Isaac brothers and their connection with the Marconi scandal, and for forcing the libel case against Cecil Chesterton, resulting in his ruin and consequent decision to go off to the war, where he was killed. GKC continued to be fair and honorable to them in print, and even though it must have been very hard to forgive them, it is evident that he did so. One of the two even converted to Catholicism shortly before his death (I forget which one at the moment).

It's just that a lot of what GKC says which is wrongly construed as anti-semitism stems from his ruminations on the implications of the Isaac brothers' actions.
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Postby Stanley Anderson » July 11th, 2008, 9:53 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby rusmeister » July 12th, 2008, 2:17 am

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Postby Stanley Anderson » July 12th, 2008, 2:38 am

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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