Orwell on Chesterton

Andy Robertson · 11 Jan 2005, 11:08 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: andywrobertson at clara.co.uk (Andy Robertson)
Date: Tue Jan 11 11:08:15 2005
Subject: (urth) Orwell on Chesterton
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> I am a great admirer of both Orwell and Chesterton, and a
> man who is converting to Catholicism in his 40s, after a
> great deal (more than ten years) of thought.

Good heavens.  May I congratulate you??? 

May I ask why
> you feel it necessary to post something so inflammatorially
> insulting? 
> 
> --Dan'l 

I must point out that the insults were Orwell's.  He is right in one thing - 
after an early efflorescence Chesterton decayed into (mostly) a stale 
polemicist who produced only the occasional good thing.  But it does not 
follow that his apologetics was simply bad (it wasn't) or that he decayed 
because he became a Catholic.

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