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The Four Men: A Farrago

The Four Men: A Farrago

Belloc, Hilaire

Paperback

General ChristianityGreat Britain

ISBN10: 1960711318
ISBN13: 9781960711311
Publisher: OS Justi Press
Published: Jan 24 2025
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

It has been proved in the life of every man that though his loves are human, and therefore changeable, yet in proportion as he attaches them to things unchangeable, so they mature and broaden.

Purportedly set in 1902, this tale was begun in 1907 but not published until 1912. The pilgrims here are Belloc and three others who meet on October 29 in an inn called the George, just inside Sussex, and decide to walk from one end of the county to the other. The idea for this walk is hatched by Belloc himself who feels that yearning of Odysseus 'to see once more the smoke going up from his own land, and after that to die.' He is soon joined by the three who, rather than use their given names, are each called by a nom-de-promenade: the Sailor, the Poet, and Grizzlebeard.... The attentive reader of Belloc will sense that they are themselves aspects of Belloc, who goes by the name 'Myself' on this journey. Like The Path to Rome, this farrago includes all that one could want of poetic descriptions of the land and Belloc's own pencil sketches of it mingled with the jokes, songs, stories, and profundities for which Belloc is justly famous.-David Deavel, The Imaginative Conservative

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