
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
On Babies by G.K. Chesterton

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3 comments:
Bill,
GK Chesterton's work always amazes me. He is able to take what most of humanity regards as mundane and raise it to the level of glory that God intended for all of His creation. Although babies are anything but mundane per se, his juxtaposition of "those delightful bulbous heads" and in "each of those orbs there is a new system of stars, new grass, new cities, a new sea" is brilliant, poetry in prose.
Pax Christi,
Trey
I agree! I think that's why we need to revisit him today. We're surrounded (as always) with the seemingly ordinary and yet it's right in all of this that the extraordinary lives and breathes! Thank God for eyes like his and his words "as sharp as swords." Thanks for the thought Trey!
From Dale Ahlquist's homage at http://chesterton.org/discover/who.html :
"... let’s just come right out and say it: G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else. But he was no mere wordsmith. He was very good at expressing himself, but more importantly, he had something very good to express. The reason he was the greatest writer of the 20th century was because he was also the greatest thinker of the 20th century. "
Amen!
If anyone's wondering where to start in getting to know G.K.'s work, i'd recommend Mr. Ahlquist's "GK Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense" or "Chesterton University Student Handbook" available at www.chesterton.org
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