/lit/ - Literature

>>7548006
I'm still not sure Borges would be a hit on Twitter. Most of his stories, while short, involve the maneuvering of ideas and concepts that take up the whole length of the text. It's hard to pull pithy, catchy statements of 140 characters or less out of those. Borges did do a decent job making quips, but I'm not sure it would be enough to lead him to stardom.

Now, Chesterton, who of course was one of Borges' favorite writers, would be the fucking king of Twitter. Chesterton would probably have more followers than Kanye.

>>7527094
Yeah, Lewis is a little inadequate in that regard.

Chesterton is better because Chesterton doesn't try to appeal to logic and 'reason' nearly as much as Lewis. He's more about the why of things than the how and the what.

Is Chesterton just for romantics trapped in adolescent fantasies?? Or do people who have actually grown up enjoy him as well?

It's been too long since we had a Chesterton thread.

I've read Heretics, and loved it; what should I tackle next?

Wilde gets ground underfoot by Chesterton, who was a better writer and poet and playwright than him, on top of the relentless critique.

In other words...