“The decay of academia: from Sis Boombah to Trans Boombah in 3 generations.”
Another of mine, from October 14, 2023.
In my latest Epoch Times column (which I should have posted sooner) I said “Go Oilers Go” because sports is far more uplifting than politics.
“More things are missed because they are too big to be seen than because they are too small to be seen.”
G.K. Chesterton in America August 30, 1930, quoted in “Chesterton For Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 6 (July-August 2023)
“To [British novelist Graham] Swift, history is not an abstract force but, as he puts it, the story ‘of how little people lived through big things.’”
A writer whose name I did not record in Maclean’s May 6, 1996
“I do not seriously propose to interpret Distributism in the sense of One Man One Musket: or even to go to the country with a programme of Three Acres and a Machine-Gun. But I do think that, for any one with a historical imagination and sense of symbolism, there is a certain connection between the old notion of private weapons and the true notion of private property. In that aspect, the other name of Distributism is Self-Defence.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly April 4, 1931, quoted in “Chesterton’s Mail Bag” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 6 (July-August 2023)
Gen. George “McLellan – briefly and reluctantly restored to command – fought the Battle of Antietam (called Sharpsburg in the South) just well enough to stop Lee and his invading army. McLellan was fatally afflicted, however, with what Lincoln in a cutting phrase called a case of ‘the slows’…”
Tom Wicker in Robert Cowley, ed. What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
“Thou Shalt not kill the Ball”
Title of a section in Joe Torre contribution to Nolan Ryan and Joe Torre with Joel Cohen, Pitching and Hitting.
“It can hardly be proposed that they [humans] should learn a purer religion from the Aztecs or sit at the feet of the Incas of Peru. All the rest of the world was a welter of barbarism. It is essential to recognise that the Roman Empire was recognised as the highest achievement of the human race; and also as the broadest. A dreadful secret seemed to be written as in obscure hieroglyphics across those mighty works of marble and stone, those colossal amphitheatres and aqueducts. Man could do no more. For it was not the message blazed on the Babylonian wall, that one king was found wanting or his one kingdom given to a stranger. It was no such good news as the news of invasion and conquest. There was nothing left that could conquer Rome; but there was also nothing left that could improve it. It was the strongest thing that was growing weak. It was the best thing that was going to the bad.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Strangest Story in the World” in The Everlasting Man quoted in “The Book of the Prophet Daniel” in “GKC on Scripture * Conducted by Peter Floriani” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 6 (July-August 2023)