(np) Man Who was Sunday thread?

[Mark Kohut]

a few years ago, browsing in The Strand's galley section, I saw a new small 
press book edited by
Kirkpatrick Sale that I had not heard of. Because small press, I figured, little 
attention. 
Kirkpatrick Sale, ole friend of TRP....

The book was essays, historic and contemporary, on distributism and very related 
notions.
So, I figure the subjext has been part of their dialogue, TRP + KS.....

I bought it. have not read it. and could never easily find it since I've moved. 
But someday?


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 9:12:36 PM
Subject: Re: (np) Man Who was Sunday thread?

they were friends too, Chesterton and Shaw.

also I was thinking of a strain of Catholic thought that takes in the
distributism of Chesterton, the social outreach of Dorothy Day a-and
the what-you-may-call-it of Mr Thomas Merton (inclusion of passages on
whom make the recent book, _JFK and the Unspeakable_ by James Douglass
more than a two-body "Oswald/Kennedy" problem)
(http://www.ctka.net/2008/jfk_unspeakable.html for a nice review,
recently read this and it's fantastic if you like this sort of thing.
Sovereign antidote for Bugliosi's doorstopper on JFK; great great
great)

but anyway...getting down to cases...

Chesterton was also friends with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who invented
a poetic form that I'm as yet unfamiliar with...


http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1695/1695-h/1695-h.htm

MWwS starts out with a garden party (just like the first episode of
the Boondocks
cartoon series!  gads that was a great series, whatever happened to
that dude anyway.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_McGruder genius)

so there is this radical dude, Mr Lucian Gregory, with red hair, and
there is this suburb called Saffron Park.  The place has artistic
pretensions, but they are more realized in the people being works of
art themselves than in the production of any particular expressions of
their art.

Mr Gregory perhaps embodies the Romantic or Byronic idea of poetry,
enshrining the natural and anarchic and so forth, without let or
hindrance, until one evening, notably lit by a supernatural-appearing
sunset -

whereupon a Mr Gabriel Symes appears in Saffron Park and immediately
proclaims a radically different view of poetry ("a poet of law...of
order...of respectability")



On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I recently read this Chesterton, Shaw exhange....
>
> Chesterton met Shaw, tall and rail thin and said, "Looking at you, one would
> think there is famine in England"
>
> Shaw retorted: "looking at you, one would think you caused it"....
>
> That Shaw........
>
>



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