Alarms & Discursions
GK Chesterton
The fragments of futile journalism or fleeting impression which are here collected are very like the wrecks and riven blocks that were piled in a heap round my imaginary priest of the sun. They are very like that grey and gaping head of stone that I found overgrown with the grass. Yet I will venture to make even of these trivial fragments the high boast that I am a medievalist and not a modern. That is, I really have a notion of why I have collected all the nonsensical things there are. I have not the patience nor perhaps the constructive intelligence to state the connecting link between all these chaotic papers. But it could be stated. This row of shapeless and ungainly monsters which I now set before the reader does not consist of separate idols cut out capriciously in lonely valleys or various islands. These monsters are meant for the gargoyles of a definite cathedral. I have to carve the gargoyles, because I can carve nothing else; I leave to others the angels and the arches and the spires. But I am very sure of the style of the architecture, and of the consecration of the church.
-- From the introduction
Duration - 5h 20m.
Author - GK Chesterton.
Narrator - Charles Featherstone.
Published Date - Sunday, 14 January 2024.
Location:
United States
Networks:
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Charles Featherstone
Chesterton's Essays
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Description:
The fragments of futile journalism or fleeting impression which are here collected are very like the wrecks and riven blocks that were piled in a heap round my imaginary priest of the sun. They are very like that grey and gaping head of stone that I found overgrown with the grass. Yet I will venture to make even of these trivial fragments the high boast that I am a medievalist and not a modern. That is, I really have a notion of why I have collected all the nonsensical things there are. I have not the patience nor perhaps the constructive intelligence to state the connecting link between all these chaotic papers. But it could be stated. This row of shapeless and ungainly monsters which I now set before the reader does not consist of separate idols cut out capriciously in lonely valleys or various islands. These monsters are meant for the gargoyles of a definite cathedral. I have to carve the gargoyles, because I can carve nothing else; I leave to others the angels and the arches and the spires. But I am very sure of the style of the architecture, and of the consecration of the church. -- From the introduction Duration - 5h 20m. Author - GK Chesterton. Narrator - Charles Featherstone. Published Date - Sunday, 14 January 2024.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:09
Introductory: on gargoyles
Duration:00:09:43
The surrender of a cockney
Duration:00:07:08
The nightmare
Duration:00:08:31
The telegraph poles
Duration:00:08:44
A drama of dolls
Duration:00:07:27
The man and his newspaper
Duration:00:09:38
The appetite of earth
Duration:00:07:30
Simmons and the social tie
Duration:00:10:17
Cheese
Duration:00:05:00
The red town
Duration:00:08:58
The furrows
Duration:00:05:59
The philosophy of sight seeing
Duration:00:09:21
A criminal head
Duration:00:08:11
The wrath of the roses
Duration:00:06:43
The gold of glastonbury
Duration:00:07:27
The futurists
Duration:00:09:33
Dukes
Duration:00:10:35
The glory of grey
Duration:00:07:44
The anarchist
Duration:00:09:17
How I found the superman
Duration:00:07:48
The new house
Duration:00:07:14
The wings of stone
Duration:00:06:27
The three kinds of men
Duration:00:08:54
The steward of the chiltern hundreds
Duration:00:06:19
The field of blood
Duration:00:06:02
The strangeness of luxury
Duration:00:08:14
The triumph of the donkey
Duration:00:09:53
The wheel
Duration:00:05:50
Five hundred and fifty five
Duration:00:06:28
Ethandune
Duration:00:08:55
The flat freak
Duration:00:09:16
The garden of the sea
Duration:00:06:51
The sentimentalist
Duration:00:08:05
The white horses
Duration:00:09:13
The long bow
Duration:00:10:42
The modern scrooge
Duration:00:11:27
The high plains
Duration:00:07:17
The chorus
Duration:00:08:22
A romance of the marshes
Duration:00:08:44
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:19