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[noahgibbs]

If you don't much like poetry, move on. You're not likely to enjoy this.

I like Chesterton. A lot of his stuff isn't anything special, but his good stuff is really good. I forget that when just browsing him. And then I remember again, because I know I've got some ideas in common with a man who can write this.

Comments

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

Wow. I especially like the penultimate verse, even if I think I might be a sceptic moth or cynic rust myself.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

You've already read "The Last Hero", by the same author, yes?

If not, hit Google up for it. The last verse is the best, but that's no excuse not to read all four :-)

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Heh. The second result for that in Google was a page on poly.polyamory.org.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, definitely. I love the subtlety of the reference in that line as well.

[astralagos.livejournal.com]

Chesterton is a brilliant author, and since he's such an interesting combination of Christian and hedonist, I can see some of where he'd kick in for you Noah. Have you read any of his novels?

Hilaire Belloc, who isn't read remotely enough these days has some neat pieces as well. He wrote a drinking song about the Pelagian Heresy at one point.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Have you read any of his novels?

I've read his biography of Saint Francis, which was lovely. And various short stories from the web. No novels, though, if you don't count biographies.

[astralagos.livejournal.com]

Try The Napoleon Of Notting Hill; The Ball And The Cross is my personal favorite, but it's something of an acquired taste. You might also want to look at the Father Brown mysteries, which are kind of Sherlock Holmes only without even pretending to take it seriously.

[ex-tdl156.livejournal.com]

I like. I started reading some of his stuff (with which I'm largely unfamiliar). I really like the essay "A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls," in a things-never-change sort of way.

"Nobody imagines that an admiration of Locksley in Ivanhoe will lead a boy to shoot Japanese arrows at the deer in Richmond Park; no one thinks that the incautious opening of Wordsworth at the poem on Rob Roy will set him up for life as a blackmailer. Faced with a gutter boy's desparate assault on another, however, we hardly pause to incriminate the wonderfully unrepentant works of John Carmack."

Okay, I added the last line.

I also like "The Song of Quoodle", which probably falls into the "isn't anything special" category, except that it's part Shel Silverstein and part Golem, and has a couple nice images.