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What is Chesterton's single greatest work, in your opinion?

>> No.13170486

>>13170457
Chesterton, like his work, serves only to amuse rather than teach or educate - he is the fat circus clown who will draw laughs but never admiration or respect. All of his attempts at taking down those with actual talent are comically horrid - one can only imagine his flatulent mass and bright red face furiously writing in the misty haze of his own farts.

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>>13170486
You're just mad because he skewered Nietzsche, aren't you?

>> No.13170616

>>13170486
>he is the fat circus clown who will draw laughs but never admiration or respect.
He's one of the most well-known/respected Christian philosophers of the 20th century, and his fiction was praised by Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles, and other great artists of the 20th century. It sounds like you're salty that Chesterton mocked a writer that you like.

>> No.13170625

>>13170457
The Ballad of the White Horse