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thing which misled the Communist of the mon in the club on those two occasions, and led him to think that the common and frigid logician on the other side MR. CHESTERTON'S WITTIOISMS.
wns fanciful. Bippant was the fact that the logician was pessibly rearing with DEFENCE OF NURSERY RHYMES.
laughter or otherwise.obviously enjoying Mr. Gilbert K. Chesterton, as the the situation. In other words, when a guest of the Author's Club, on October fanciful imago was brought forth it gave a certain pleasure for its own sake. 24th, entertained the members to a de- lightful after-dinner talk on The FanAll incongruity had its own proportion, like anything else. Take the cow jump.
The main incon Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins presided, ed over the moon." and in proposing Mr. Chesterton's husithrity which the struck the childish said he was glad Mr. Chesterton "had mind depended upon the solidity and chosen "The Fantastic in Literature "simplicity of the images themselves. The as the subject fir which he proposed to child had seen a cows and a moon, and, address them. There could be nobody although the picture was fantastic, it was CALCUTTA LINE:-This Ling afford regular sailing to Calouste, Funsing ou more qualified to speak on the subject that the author of The Napoleon ut Notting Hill and The Club of Queer Trades."
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became unrecognisable, and the image was lost. The essential and vital perfection. of fantastic literature was that it should | not be too fantastic. (Cheers.)
A DEFENCE OF EDWARD "LEAR. Edward Lear, continued Mr. Chester- ton, setined to be greater than Lewis Carroll, richer and more romantic in his style, and certainly more English. There was that short poem in which that artist expressed his ego, the poem about
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His mind is intense and chimerical, Old Floss is the name of his cat; His body is perfectly spherical;
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That verse was not a mere string of nonsense words; it worked up, carefully to the effect. Ofd. Floss was a reasonable The statement that name for cat.
his body is perfectly spherical" might appear to carry symmetry too far. "but," added Mr. Chesterton, "to judge by various-pictures have seen of myself, it is not too fantastic." (Laughter.) then there was at the end, he weareth
Alt. toast, said he very gravely doubted whe- ther he had any right in that assembly at all, whether he was in any sense an author. He was a journalist, and a cer. tain dippancy into which he feared he. occasionally felt was chiefly due to that fact. The journalist, after all, had to try to be amusing, but the author did (Laughter.) not have to be amusing. "A far too kind and flattering critic of my work." Mr. Chesterton proceeded. recently said with regret that I some times behaved like a red-posed comedian! I wish I could be a public servant of so valuable a type. (Laughter.) 1 am. bound. to say I sometimes think it is more modest to try to be amusing than to assume that you are interesting: (Laughter.) After all, the red-nose come- dian takes a certain amount of trouble in the public interest; he selects some pigment such as be feels will suit his com plexion. Still, there is another attitude in art which may be regarded as that of the man who is conscious that his nose isready such a thing of beauty that has, only to parade it in the street and decasionally to turn it up at other people in order to be universally admir runcible hat." So perfect had been ed. (Laughter.) For my part, am con the preparation that they were almost led tent with the red rose of comedy. In
to believe there was a hat bearing that fact, although my opinions are what many name. (Laughter.) That spirit of order would hold to be revolutionary, I have and proportion in the fantastic seemed never felt altogether comfortable under to him to be a thing worth noting. IỆ the Red Flag as it is at present carried, I might connect it," Mr. Chesterton went because it is carried by such very serious WA, with those larger matters on which people. (Laughter.) I do not altogether was the original intention that I trust the mob (if indeed, there be a mob) should speak-the aftermath of war-1 that is led by the Red Flag or by they would say that I for one have never-10. ensign of the red tie which used to be pented for a moment such little work as worn by Socialists in my youth, but if i did so in helping better men than I ever 1 sce a mob of Englishmen advanc
to Eght for what I still believe to havó ing behind the ensign of the red-nose, been the cause of all that is sane in human then indeed 1 shall know that at last evilisation. (Cheers.) But I should ke democraty has a democratic backing." to say that, in order to measure the (Loud laughter.) He had suggested as value of that great historical operation, the subject for discussion that night. Mr. the great difficulty is that it is impossible "Chesterton proceeded, the fantastic in to measure, the escape, literature. It was very common to see our triumph was negative, and not vivid the suggestion that laughter had its to the imagination. If Mr. Robinson has origin in some form of cruelty or hos-escaped from brigands who were going to tility to others. or pleasure at their dis- torture him, be continues to be Mr. Robia- tress or pain. This was generally repeat son, and goes up to the City every morn ed throughout the modern world, and was ing. He is not, perhaps, in himself an very popular because it was depressing inspiring object(laughter) but if you (Laughter.) His old friend, Mrs. Bar-wise to measure what was done for air: nett, had recently expressed herself with Robinson you must maasure what was somo disapproval of the rhyme about not done to him. If in that great con- the cow jumping over the moon; and itiet the chance of victory had gone the was very touching to see the way in other way. I am very certain indeed that which literary critics rallied with one history in a sense would have stopped, accord to the defence of "Hey diddle that it would not have been worth writ diddle," feeling a sort of common enthusing. (Cheers.) Civilisation, with all its fasm that here at last was a real great arts, would gradually have decayed back English masterpiece of poetry" which they into a sort of primordial alime, and had not only always praised and admired among those arts which would have de- and raised for the emulation and ad- caycu is-as essential, and vital, and miration of the world, but which they had ever actually read. (Laughter.) It would require a good deal of psychology to contradict two facts of which that rhyme was a simple illustration. It was
Mr. W. H. Williamson thought we were certainly a fact that children laughed at beginning to find that the grotesque was that nursery rhyme at i very early age not in those paths and channels where and that the image of the cow jumping we might go seeking for it, but in those over the moon was a simple incongruity places and gardens where we least ex that amused, Another fact was that it pected to find it. It was found on the would be very difficult, even for a modern stage in melodrama, where the hero sud. phychologist, to maintain that the plea dealy appeared to rescue the heroine sure a child took in that rhyme was though the audience knew that he was entirely based on the gruel delight which on the other side of the Atlantic. a child would take in the cow coming bad also found the fantastic in such an with a great thump to the ground. unlikely place as a trader's catalogue. Even in the somewhat immoral elopement Mr. Ernest Short suggested that the of the dish and the spoon it would be deepeat pathos of the great scene in hard to maintain that the infant's entire Lear on the heath came when thạ pleasure consisted in meditating on the fool was speaking to his old master, and loneliness and possible suicide of the de-it, eeemed to him that the genius of serted fork."Laughter.) Although he Shakespeare was never shown more bril- did not admit the origin of humour ID faintly than when he put the fool in con- cruelty, there, was a perfectly abstract junction with the old deserted king in beauty in the incongruous, which was connection with that most tragic of all somewhat in the nature of art for it's scenes. sake.
BSSENTIALS OF FANTASTIC LITERATURE.
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even more peculiar than any other-that art of high civilised humour, the, flower of the fantastic, for this also does not grow in a wilderness, but in a garden."
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Mr. Cockerell recalled that he and Mr. Chesterton were members of the same Few people," said Mr. Chesterton, literary debating society as young men. "seem to understand the fantastic when In that society they used to prepare care- it is used locally upon the principle of fully and laboriously little speeches with the reductio ad absurdum. For in which they intended, as they fondly. stance,
ought hoped, to revolutionise the world. Then to bo no private property of any Mr. Chesterton would get up and give kind: that there are none of the his whimsical view, and turn them inside things that men have that they should out, leaving them nothing to stand on not share. You then say to him. Your till they realised that his fantastic views proposal about & communal toothbrush were the real thing that mattered, and (laughter)or a communal pair of trou- their serious speeches were little more serslaughter)-and be replies that you than secondhand and of little interest. are simply making a jest of the discus. sion... (Laughter.) The point to insist upon is that he is the man who has made the absurd remark. (Cheers.) Ha IRRITATED & INFLAMED EYE is the man who has made the joke, but
the difference is that I can see the joke can be directly traced in many cases to and he can't. (Laughter.) Do not think the Sunday-Motor trip and Golfing. The I give you that example merely as in- dust from sections of the local roads dicating partisanship on general political
or other matters. Just the same absurd. contain a decided eye irritant. A sug- ities are uttered on what may be called gestion for these trips would be to keep the reactionary side. For instance, when the windshield up and to use a pair of the ordinary jolly old major, of man in
the club, tells you, as a man in a club Sun glasses. Sun glasses of any pattern told me, I always like to fight the enemy with either Orokes, Luxfel, Fieuzal, with their own weapons. I say to him, Amber, London Smoke, or Blus lenses
How long does it take you to sting á
are obtainable at very moderate prices. waspor. How do cannibals taste? or something of that sort. (Lond laughter) from The Hongkong Optical Co., suces In these circumstances, the man in the sors to Clark & Co., Manufacturing and club is liable to accuse you of fantasy,
but, as a matter of fact, it is he who is Refracting Opticians the most compet fantastic."(Cheers.) That was one very eat manufacturing optical establishment common origin of the fantastic or dip in South China-located in 53, Queen's paut in ordinary conversation or contro
versy, but, over and above that, there Boad Central, (opposite to the Singer was a pleasure in the thing itself, The Sewing Machine Company ~Anvs,/ (669
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