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Alarms and Discursions

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    ALARMS AND DISCURSIONS By G. K. Chesterton CONTENTS 1: INTRODUCTORY: ON GARGOYLES 2: THE SURRENDER OF A COCKNEY 3: THE NIGHTMARE 4: THE TEL…
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    Have you ever tried the experiment of saying some plain word, such as “dog,” thirty times? By the thirtieth time it has become a word like…
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    Somebody staring into the sky with the same ethereal appetite declared that the moon was made of green cheese. I never could conscientiousl…
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    I began to make a fairy tale about the man; and, indeed, this phrase contains both a fairy tale and a philosophy; it really states almost t…
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    The Wrath of the Roses The position of the rose among flowers is like that of the dog among animals. It is so much that both are domesticat…
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    “That is not the house?” he inquired politely of the driver. “No, sir,” said the driver, controlling the corners of his mouth. “The lodge,…
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    I found the house of Dr. and Lady Hypatia Hagg without much difficulty; it is situated in one of the last straggling streets of Croydon, an…
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    We are so proud in England of our crazy constitutional anomalies that I fancy that very few readers indeed will need to be told about the S…
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    My friend was a good man, and said, “Yes. But I don't think it would do her any good if I went slower.” “No,” I assented after reflection.…
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    Whatever it is, therefore, that wearies us in these wealthy jokes (like the North Pole Dinner) it is not merely that men make fools of them…
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    But why was it made? Why did barbarians take so much trouble to make a horse nearly as big as a hamlet; a horse who could bear no hunter, w…
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    On the same principles I call the plains high because the plains always are high; they are always as high as we are. We talk of climbing a…
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