Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Name: The Flying Inn — Chapter XX
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Flying Inn — Chapter XX (1914)

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“The Flying Inn — Chapter XX”, published in 1914, is a work by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. It explores elements such as Hibbs, Leveson and Dorian Wimpole.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter XX (1914)

“ You can't exaggerate the feathers of a cow or the legs of a whale. You can draw a cow with feathers or a whale with legs for a joke--though I hardly think such jokes are in your line. But don't you see, my good Philip, that even then the joke depends on its looking like a cow and not only like a thing with feathers. Even then the joke depends on the whale as well as the legs. You can combine up to a certain point; you can distort up to a certain point; after that you lose the identity; and with that you lose everything. A Centaur is so much of a man with so much of a horse. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter XX (1914)

“ Hibbs, and the sudden appearance of that blameless diplomatist quickened the mental current to a cataract. But as he could not insult Hibbs, whom socially he did not even know; and could not insult Ivywood, with whom he had just had a formal reconciliation, it was absolutely necessary that he should insult something else instead. All watchers for the Dawn will be deeply distressed to know that the Post-Futurist School of Painting received the full effects of this perverted wrath. In vain did Mr. Leveson affirm from time to time, "People always prejudiced against new ideas." ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter XX (1914)

“ Hibbs say at the proper intervals, "After all, they said the same of Whistler." Not by such decent formalities was the frenzy of Dorian to be appeased.
"That little Turk has more sense than you have," he said, "he passes it as a good wall-paper. I should say it was a bad wall-paper; the sort of wall-paper that gives a sick man fever when he hasn't got it. But to call it pictures--you might as well call it seats for the Lord Mayor's Show. A seat isn't a seat if you can't see the Lord Mayor's Show. A picture isn't a picture if you can't see any picture. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter XX (1914)

“ Hence it often happened that persons, who in their serious senses were well aware of his harmless and useful habits, would leave his shop on some murky and foggy night, with their heads so full of wild tales of the eating of hemp or the poisoning of roses, they could hardly help fancying that the shop, with its glowing moon of crimson or saffron, like bowls of blood and sulphur, was really a house of the Black Art. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter XX (1914)

“ I should like the Centaur to turn into something else, that is neither man nor horse."
"But not something that has nothing of either?" asked the poet.
"Yes," answered Ivywood, with the same queer, quiet gleam in his colourless eyes, "something that has nothing of either."
"But what's the good?" argued Dorian. "A thing that has changed entirely has not changed at all. It has no bridge of crisis. It can remember no change. If you wake up tomorrow and you simply _are_ Mrs. Dope, an old woman who lets lodgings at Broadstairs --well, I don't doubt Mrs. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter XX (1914)

“ The Turk and the Futurists MR. ADRIAN CROOKE was a successful chemist whose shop was in the neighbourhood of Victoria, but his face expressed more than is generally required in a successful chemist. It was a curious face, prematurely old and like parchment, but acute and decisive, with real headwork in every line of it. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter XX (1914)

“ Lady Enid, by a series of assurances (most of which were, I regret to say, lies) had succeeded in preventing the scandal of her cousin, Dorian, actually cutting her cousin, Philip. But she knew very little of the masculine temper if she really thought she had prevented the profound intellectual revolt of the poet against the politician. Ever since he heard Mr. Hibbs say, "Yars! Yars!", and order his arrest by a common policeman, the feelings of Dorian Wimpole had flowed for some four days and nights in a direction highly contrary to the ideals of Mr. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter XX (1914)

“ There soared up into the sky like a cloud of rooks the eager vanity of the North.
"We collier lads are none so badly educated, lad," he said. "In the town a' was born in there was a gallery of pictures as fine as Lunnon. ”

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