A long Chesterton extract
April 30th 2011 03:42
G K Chesterton in full flight writing in The New Jerusalem (pages 54/5), published in 1920. Chesterton is describing the gates of the city at this point. Note that this was written before the horrors that Germany inflicted on the world through Hitler and the Second World War. I've broken up the original long paragraphs a little.
...he who walks round the walls of this city...will come suddenly upon an
exception which will surprise him like an earthquake. It looks indeed rather like something done by an earthquake; an earthquake with a half-witted sense of humour [ Click here to read more ]
...he who walks round the walls of this city...will come suddenly upon an
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