/lit/ - Literature

>>23138759
pseudo tradcath pseudo intellect checking in.
they say Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, GK Chesterton... tried reading all those cats, and can't make it through a single book. wiling to give them all another shot, but are things really so bleak?
Catholics I know... smart people who have philosophical grounding, who read Aquinas... they go on and on about Tolkien... I mean sure, read some fantasy if you dig that kind of escape, but at some point we have to get beyond children's lit, don't we?
Chesterton is exceedingly clever but the bluster is over the top, and I find it painful reading him trying to get from point a to point b, completely unable to stop the waterfall of sophistry. and this is from a big fan of Dickens and Hardy, so it's not just a matter of verboseness.
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Utopia was good, and we do have Dante...