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Tremendous Trifles

Tremendous Trifles

Chesterton, G. K.

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1512043753
ISBN13: 9781512043754
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 4 2015
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
These fleeting sketches are all republished by kind permission of the Editor of the DAILY NEWS, in which paper they appeared. They amount to no more than a sort of sporadic diary-a diary recording one day in twenty which happened to stick in the fancy-the only kind of diary the author has ever been able to keep. Even that diary he could only keep by keeping it in public, for bread and cheese. But trivial as are the topics they are not utterly without a connecting thread of motive. As the reader's eye strays, with hearty relief, from these pages, it probably alights on something, a bed-post or a lamp-post, a window blind or a wall. It is a thousand to one that the reader is looking at something that he has never seen: that is, never realised. He could not write an essay on such a post or wall: he does not know what the post or wall mean. He could not even write the synopsis of an essay; as The Bed-Post; Its Significance-Security Essential to Idea of Sleep-Night Felt as Infinite-Need of Monumental Architecture, and so on. He could not sketch in outline his theoretic attitude towards window-blinds, even in the form of a summary.

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