(urth) chesterton

[aramini1 at cox.net]

Chesterton is worthy of discussion on the list primarily because his writing clearly influenced Wolfe.  

Some authors are trickier than others.  I once wrote a sample argumentative paper for my students with sources and all in the hopes that they would realize my argument was full of holes and pick it apart.  Instead, they all agreed with me.  In the hands of a fervent athiest, having a most low god who claimed to be have the highest god on his back as festering sores would be seen as a reflection of the author's idea of the most high god (a god of sores and debasement)- in Wolfe, we read it in the opposite fashion.  Odd how that works, isn't it?

Marc