Oooo, @standardebooks has a bunch of #Chesterton books!
R.L. Dane 
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Downloads $ \ls *chesterton*
g-k-chesterton_manalive.kepub
g-k-chesterton_orthodoxy.kepub
g-k-chesterton_the-innocence-of-father-brown.kepub
(Way more than what you see here, these are just what I've downloaded for now)
It's the hubris that gets me.
"Look at all this complexity! What purpose does it serve? Let us clear it all away and start fresh, and create a clean, fast replacement for all of this!"
Chesterton's coreutils.
Gilles Mathieu - The Ballad of the White Horse
What sort of dunce allows a mere book to push them around? Or a film or a game or a TV commercial or anything else?
Well...I point out that both McLuhan and I allowed books—specifically, the writings of G. K. #Chesterton—to push us around. Both of us made decisions which we felt to be reasonable and conscious decisions (at least, that's how I felt about Catholic conversion) to do something irrational, i.e. convert to Catholicism, because we read Heretics or Orthodoxy or The Man Who Was Thursday or whatever else, and we were moved.
And it turns out that McLuhan was quite devout in his way, but he kept it kinda quiet. Plainly he didn't want his image as a public intellectual to be mixed up with Catholicism. Privately, though:
In his personal correspondence and private writings, [McLuhan] sometimes made connections between his religion and the media: for example, he compared satellite technology to the Star of Bethlehem.[36] He had a lifelong interest in the number three[37] (e.g., the trivium, the Trinity) and sometimes said that the Virgin Mary provided intellectual guidance for him.[c]
For the first time a red patch appeared on Gregory’s forehead.
“You don’t expect me,” he said, “to revolutionise society on this lawn?”
Syme looked straight into his eyes and smiled sweetly.
“No, I don’t,” he said; “but I suppose that if you were serious about your anarchism, that is exactly what you would do.”
(G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday)
I feel a little weird and hypocritical about liking #Chesterton as much as I do, for he was a Catholic reactionary who is beloved today mostly by a much fouler class of Christian reactionaries—purported admirers of Chesterton who blow right past everything the man ever wrote against capitalism and robber-barons and jingo patriots in order to commiserate with him on the subject of orthodoxy (and, I daresay, who brighten up considerably every time Chesterton lapses into casual British-style bigotry.)
Hm. How to tackle this problem...I have talked before about espying a faint resemblance between #Deltarune and #Chesterton, namely The Man Who Was Thursday. And it seems I may be compelled to commit to that intellectual task, now that I have already emitted so much noise about it.
Jeanne is asking me to do it. Chesterton wrote about Jeanne...I haven't read his work yet and Jeanne would like me to rectify that error. Anyway I cannot say "no" to anything Jeanne requests so, well! That's one thing at least that needs to be done. Just as well, because it's about the days of the week—those old enemies of mine.
What do you know, Deltarune also has an implicit division into seven parts, and Chapter One begins on Thursday! I haven't assumed that the chapters would entirely line up with the progress of days, the first two chapters at least line up with successive days.
A different seven-fold symmetry pervades the earlier game, #Undertale, in the form of the seven colors mapping to seven virtues.
Das ist ein großartiges Zitat, Danke! 🙏
Und den klugen #Chesterton lese ich immer wieder gerne! Hättest Du mir eine Quelle für dieses Zitat? Am liebsten als Buch?
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