Posted by conskeptical
Mar 5, 2010 8:17 am

Replies (10)

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• (sign below with some sort of message so we can get an idea of the group :)

  Mar 5, 2010 8:36 am
  by conskeptical

• I'm up, as per wave discussions and whatnot. :)

  Mar 5, 2010 5:57 pm
  by Inarticule

• I'm in for the Ides of March, also.

  Mar 6, 2010 6:50 am
  by dreamdust

• I am up for it...

  Mar 8, 2010 8:41 am
  by Nightshade

• ok you guys. It's time to begin :) http://tumble.conskeptical.net/post/451802927
  Let's have fun! :)

  Mar 16, 2010 3:19 am
  by conskeptical

• dreamdust: I like that it's the Ides of March too. A historical reference I had not noticed or really known about until you pointed it out...

  Mar 16, 2010 3:22 am
  by conskeptical

• I'm in!
  
  Wooo!

  Mar 16, 2010 5:18 am
  by DonnyTheBull

• Slainte Mhath, Happy St. Patrick's Day to all. G. (Gilbert) K. (Keith) Chesterton's writing is more elegant than I expected. But I am delighted so far-my big question is who is Edmund Clerihew Bentley? Since the first installment is addressed to him, as in To E. C. B. and has anyone read him before (Chesterton)?

  Mar 17, 2010 9:23 am
  by dreamdust

• I haven't read any GKC before (if you interested, his wikipedia entry has a link to the entire set of Father Brown stories...). The snippets in Deus Ex were sufficient recommendation for me :)
  ECB has a small entry in wikipedia... Haven't searched elsewhere on the web for him.
  I like the style so far too. But a cursory reading wasn't enough to get anything out of it. I had to sit down and really immerse myself in it. Which is a good thing I guess!

  Mar 18, 2010 2:06 pm
  by conskeptical

• Well I stumbled upon http://chesterton.org/ and there is a gilbert magazine that specializes in Chesterton http://gilbertmagazine.com/ there is an American Chesterton Society-who knew? So resouces are at hand. This story has never been out-of-print since 1908 and it is the 100th anniversary of The Man Who Was Thursday. Hope you all find this as helpful as I did.

  Mar 21, 2010 6:29 am
  by dreamdust

• More about The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare:

  • View the book detail page.
  • Learn more about the author.