tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post104623940550072948..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: A Short Post About NothingGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20745553059432679542017-01-26T17:59:16.442-08:002017-01-26T17:59:16.442-08:00Ballad of the White Horse is always appropriate. ...Ballad of the White Horse is always appropriate. DNA says I'm a fifth Irish, or that I had a fifth of Irish, but "all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad." mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24194090911660579032017-01-26T15:50:55.444-08:002017-01-26T15:50:55.444-08:00I read your comment, mushroom, just as my current ...I read your comment, mushroom, just as my current reading of the Ballad was of Mary speaking to King Alfred:<br /><br />For you and all the kind of Christ,<br />Are ignorant and brave,<br />And you have wars you hardly win,<br />And souls you hardly save.<br /><br />Looks like we are in good company!<br /><br />(Hope I am not troubling people with too much verse, but Bob brought up Chesterton first! And I haven't even mentioned yet his buddy, Belloc.)<br />garyeurekahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05624923563231964117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74833795228202473702017-01-26T14:24:25.072-08:002017-01-26T14:24:25.072-08:00My knowledge is like water on the Bonneville Salt ...My knowledge is like water on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Might look like a lot but it doesn't amount to much. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53905348229298927262017-01-26T13:30:01.323-08:002017-01-26T13:30:01.323-08:00Indeed, "Whenever it is imperatively necessar...<i>Indeed, "Whenever it is imperatively necessary for me to read a book pursuant to something that I am currently writing about, I immediately lose interest in it.... I want to read something else entirely."</i><br /><br />Heh - I know that feeling. Fortunately, sometimes I'm stubborn enough to get through it in spite of myself.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-64502211539657966042017-01-26T10:09:11.148-08:002017-01-26T10:09:11.148-08:00“Chesterton . . . was a mystic of the every day.”
...“Chesterton . . . was a mystic of the every day.”<br /><br />In the preface to “The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton”, editor Daniel B. Dodson quotes G.K speaking of the poet as “the builder of bridges” who crosses “the chasm between the world of unspoken . . . truths to the world of spoken words. His triumph is when the bridge is completed and the word is spoken; above all when it is heard.”<br />garyeurekahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05624923563231964117noreply@blogger.com