Episode 185: "The Man Who Was Thursday" by G. K. Chesterton, Intro and Ch. 1-4

The Literary Life Podcast

Angelina Stanford

Education, Selfeducation, Classicaleducation, Reading, Literature, Homeschool, Arts, Books, Charlottemason, Homeeducation, Homeschooling

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🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to the Literary Life podcast this week and our new series on G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday. Angelina, Cindy, and Thomas open with their commonplace quotes, as usual, then proceed to setting up the background for this book and the man Chesterton himself. Thomas also shares Chesterton’s poem to E. C. Bentley that opens this book and gives a brief explication of the poem. Following this, our hosts recap each chapter in the first section. Angelina makes several connections to Paradise Lost in this section, as well as pointing out the romantic and chivalric quest elements in the story. Cindy highlights the fact that we also have the fair maiden character here. Join us again next week when we will cover chapters 5-10 as events become even more strange.

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Angelina is teaching a class on How to Read Beowulf at the end of August 2023. Get in on this mini-class at House of Humane Letters.

Thomas is also teaching a webinar along with Michael Williams on the modern poets W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot on September 28th. You can now register at House of Humane Letters.

Commonplace Quotes:

Had her mother been somebody else’s mother she would perhaps have admired her unreservedly.
L. P. Hartley, A Perfect Woman

When a child is reading, he should not be teased with questions as to the meaning of what he has read, the signification of this word or that; what is annoying to older people is equally annoying to children.
Charlotte Mason

And there is…Mooreeffoc, or Chestertonian Fantasy. Mooreeffoc is a fantastic word, but it could be seen written up in every town in this land. It is Coffeeroom, view from the inside through a glass door, as it was seen by Dickens on a dark London day; and it was used by Chesterton to denote the queerness of things that have become trite, when they are seen suddenly from a new angle.
J. R. R. Tolkien, “On Fairy Stories“

GKC

by Walter de la Mare

Knight of the Holy Ghost, he goes his way,

Wisdom his motley, Truth his loving jest;

The mills of Satan keep his lance in play,

Pity and innocence his heart at rest.

Books Mentioned:

The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

Thursday Next Series by Jasper Fforde

Trent’s Last Case by E. C. Bentley

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0:40.3	Learn what books mean while delighting
0:42.4	in the sheer joy of imagination.
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1:03.6	Join us for an ever unfolding discussion
1:06.6	of how stories will save the world.
1:09.6	This is the Literary Life Podcast. Welcome back to the literary life podcast. Today I am joined with my usual partners in crime.
1:35.0	Gotta be careful saying that considering the book we're reading.
1:37.7	Hopefully no one's an actual Molotov cocktail tossing anarchist, but we shall find out. I'm joined with my usual partners in crime to have what I expect to be a very illuminating conversation about the man who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton. So first the mysterious Mr Banks.
1:56.4	Hello, welcome. What home? And to Cindy, the blonde bombshell herself, the fair a faucet of Charlotte Mason, I feel like saying,
2:05.5	and in this corner weighing in a 98 pounds soaking wet is the fair of faucet of
2:10.3	mason. Cindy Rollins, welcome Cindy. Yes, that would be a gross exaggeration of.
2:17.3	It would be great though.
2:18.8	It would be terrible of you are 98 pounds.
2:22.6	I don't have to have an intervention with you and force feed you.
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