Swimming Upstream
February 28, 2007
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
G. K. Chesterton, “The Five Deaths of the Faith” The Everlasting Man
chance of turning back
February 20, 2007
“But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually – their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on – and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end”
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Head in the Sand
February 19, 2007
“The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Ring
Impartiality, Indifference and Ignorance
January 22, 2007
“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
G. K. Chesterton, The Speaker, 12/15/00
