Finished Reading “Heretics”

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  "G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on  "heretics" - those who pride themselves on their superiority to Christian views - Chesterton appraises prominent figures who fall into that category from the literary and art worlds... those who hold incomplete and inadequate views about "life, the universe, and everything." He is, in short, criticizing all that host of non-Christian views of reality, as he demonstrated in his follow-up book Orthodoxy. The book is both an easy read and a difficult read. But he manages to demonstrate, among other things, that our new 21st century heresies are really not new because he himself deals with most of them." (Goodreads)

Someone Spins the Thread

"Whom the rising sun hath seen high in pride, 
him the setting sun hath seen laid low. 
Let none be over-confident when fortune smiles; 
let none despair of better things when fortune fails. 
Clotho blends weal and woe, lets no lot stand, 
keeps ever fate a-turning. 
No one has found the gods so kind that he may promise to-morrow to himself. 
God keeps all mortal things in swift whirl turning."

(Seneca, Thyestes)

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