26 September 2018

GKC at Home

An example of the wit, not only of Chesterton, but of his fellow journalists in the early 20th century.

From Laughter and Humility (GK-CHESTERTON.ORG)

A journalist, describing in the Daily News an interview with Chesterton, includes this delightful tidbit: 
At this [Chesterton] drew his basket chair menacingly nearer to me, and I drew my chair nearer to him, while for an hour or more we hurled defiance at each other's creeds. I continued the struggle with indomitable perseverance until he had proved, to my satisfaction and his own exuberant delight, that my Protestantism was merely undeveloped Vaticanism. When, however, he proceeded to disprove my existence, which I value, I ventured to change the subject.
-December 13, 1907, Daily News, "'G.K.C.' at Home"

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