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amusingly, the Google blurb for GK Chesterton lists him as influencing only Zizek. He was born in London in 1874, worked for a publisher, did some journalism, freelance art and literary criticism, and interestingly, like Shaw, wanted to be an artist rather than a writer
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Chesterton has been described as the "prince of paradox", known to take popular sayings, proverbs, allegories and "carefully turn them inside out" https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1319054083974549505
another mutual of Chesterton and Shaw was HG Wells
"He seemed always to be working out a philosophy of human progress"
you can see a pattern in how WW1, The Great Depression and WW2 shook intellectuals, turned them (understandably) pessimistic, cynical https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1067772077241884673
"He seemed always to be working out a philosophy of human progress"
you can see a pattern in how WW1, The Great Depression and WW2 shook intellectuals, turned them (understandably) pessimistic, cynical https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1067772077241884673
cute/sweet exchange between Wells and Chesterton
Wells: if there is a God I hope he'll let me into heaven because I am your friend
GKC: my dear HG, if there is a heaven, you will be welcome to it- and not for being my friend, but for being a friend to all men
Wells: if there is a God I hope he'll let me into heaven because I am your friend
GKC: my dear HG, if there is a heaven, you will be welcome to it- and not for being my friend, but for being a friend to all men
Like Montaigne and Shaw, Chesterton recognized that school is bullshit https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1111404274326462464
