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Post by Tomas on Mar 13, 2020 12:50:55 GMT
Mr. Dale Ahlquist´s several presentations of G.K. Chesterton ideas are so absolutely well done they can be attentively watched again and again (if one happens to like their heavily Conservative views). Posting one good example here, if anyone has happened to have missed the series.
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Post by assisi on Mar 13, 2020 22:34:00 GMT
Chesterton's books and the these well produced lectures are like comfort blankets for any Catholic seeking common sense and sound philosophy.
A good observation came from that lecture, that in paganism there is nothing to check its own exaggerations. I have heard the same thing said elsewhere of modern liberalism, that it has no boundaries, no point of reference, and that it will continue expanding to accommodate all of men's desires until it leads to chaos and/or tyranny.
Also in that lecture Chesterton praises Thomism. All of which made me think, that there are a number of great works that I have never read from start to finish, not even a chapter here or there as they are too intimidating in their length and style. Has anyone read any of the following works in their entirety:
Aquinas's Summa Theologica
Dante's Divine Comedy
Joyce's Ulysses
Milton's Paradise Lost
I think if I summon the strength someday, I will attempt the Summa.
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Post by Tomas on Mar 14, 2020 9:44:26 GMT
None of the classics attempted (Divine Comedy only opened). Read an old essay recently by legendary Swede Frans G. Bengtsson, author of Röde Orm ("The Long Ships" - also a popular tale in Ireland?) musing on the trouble he had in appreciating the literary merit in long parts of Canterbury Tales. He admired the prologue and the crossings in between and certain of the stories themselves, and got aweary by one story named "Melibeus" among others...
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Post by cato on Mar 14, 2020 16:31:39 GMT
Have dipped into the Summa many years ago and have read the Inferno but got lost in Purgatory and have yet to attempt Paradise.
Have read Ulysses twice and like to dip into it around Bloomsdsay most years. Have read 2 pages of Finnegan's Wake. I wonder has anyone ever read it ever for pleasure?
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Post by Tomas on Dec 14, 2020 17:23:55 GMT
G.K.C. on What´s Wrong With The World. One chapter about sociology, bearing not so little on today´s scene even, in 8 mins; an American reading on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4tDIth2db0 |
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Post by Seán Ó Murchú on Jan 4, 2021 21:09:26 GMT
Mr. Dale Ahlquist´s several presentations of G.K. Chesterton ideas are so absolutely well done they can be attentively watched again and again (if one happens to like their heavily Conservative views). Posting one good example here, if anyone has happened to have missed the series. Interesting, I will have a look |
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Post by eala on May 12, 2023 23:23:22 GMT
Have dipped into the Summa many years ago and have read the Inferno but got lost in Purgatory and have yet to attempt Paradise. Have read Ulysses twice and like to dip into it around Bloomsdsay most years. Have read 2 pages of Finnegan's Wake. I wonder has anyone ever read it ever for pleasure? FW is a ballad. Try listening to the book instead of reading it. |
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Post by cato on May 13, 2023 14:04:06 GMT
Have dipped into the Summa many years ago and have read the Inferno but got lost in Purgatory and have yet to attempt Paradise. Have read Ulysses twice and like to dip into it around Bloomsdsay most years. Have read 2 pages of Finnegan's Wake. I wonder has anyone ever read it ever for pleasure? FW is a ballad. Try listening to the book instead of reading it. Mary Kenny has said something similar - read it aloud. |
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Post by Maolsheachlann on May 13, 2023 14:16:18 GMT
The last time I tried to read Ulysses, a few years ago, I came to the firm conclusion that the thing was more or less a fraud and I wasn't going to waste another moment on it.
If every author demanded the allowances and attention Joyce demands, reading would become excruciating.
The Joyce cult is interesting as a social phenomenon.
It goes without saying that, having dismissed Ulysses as a fraud, I'm hardly likely to embark on Finnegans Wake.
My dear late father was a big fan of Ulysses. Generally his literary tastes were conservative and firmly anti-modernist. I always suspected his Dublin civic pride got the better of him in this case.
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Post by eala on May 13, 2023 17:31:22 GMT
The last time I tried to read Ulysses, a few years ago, I came to the firm conclusion that the thing was more or less a fraud and I wasn't going to waste another moment on it. If every author demanded the allowances and attention Joyce demands, reading would become excruciating. The Joyce cult is interesting as a social phenomenon. It goes without saying that, having dismissed Ulysses as a fraud, I'm hardly likely to embark on Finnegans Wake. My dear late father was a big fan of Ulysses. Generally his literary tastes were conservative and firmly anti-modernist. I always suspected his Dublin civic pride got the better of him in this case. Ulysses, Finnegans Wake and an unpublished third book were a triptych of the Divine Comedy. Ulysses is inferno, everything moves excruciatingly slow, it's circular, and it's all rather heavy. Evidently the third book was planned as something short with simple language |
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Post by irishmonarchist on Mar 22, 2024 15:02:28 GMT
I'm looking for a GK chesterton society in Dublin, anyone know of one?
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