tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7546783121640385268.post7213051964284641020..comments2024-03-23T18:50:06.402+11:00Comments on journey & destination: G.K. Chesterton and HumourCarolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820925595506920754noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7546783121640385268.post-34774046806005763062014-03-16T04:10:28.503+11:002014-03-16T04:10:28.503+11:00I don't know much about Chesterton besides a f...I don't know much about Chesterton besides a few quotes. I need to read him some time.Barbara H.http://barbarah.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7546783121640385268.post-23113119577851503542014-03-11T00:11:57.114+11:002014-03-11T00:11:57.114+11:00Humour and poetry are both good medicine, accordin...Humour and poetry are both good medicine, according to Chesterton. "Perhaps the strongest case of all is this: that only one great English poet went mad, Cowper. And he was definitely driven mad by logic, by the ugly and alien logic of predestination. Poetry was not the disease, but the medicine; poetry partly kept him in health." ~~ G.K. Chesterton, OrthodoxyMama Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06941211100125966917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7546783121640385268.post-13306127142854743042014-03-10T09:38:39.663+11:002014-03-10T09:38:39.663+11:00Very good points about humor, and the seriousness ...Very good points about humor, and the seriousness of a lack thereof. :-)<br /><br />My book group read The Man Who Was Thursday, and wondered together about it, even while we did agree with you, that it was amazing. I should read it again and see if at this stage in the road I grasp more of it.GretchenJoannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13641677400029070452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7546783121640385268.post-57048796821902186022014-03-10T07:05:16.183+11:002014-03-10T07:05:16.183+11:00I think we've all begun to take ourselves too ...I think we've all begun to take ourselves too seriously in part because we are no longer in the habit of thinking in metaphors. We take offense about everything and see so much from a literal sense. All that to say... I agree. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471641245888346516noreply@blogger.com