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March 02, 2008
Backin' me up
The GK Chesterton quotation on the banner of this blog has become my mantra of sorts. Here's another that's a little out there, but totally agrees with what I said in my previous post about comedy (I knew GK and I were kindred spirits!):
"Seriousness is not a virtue. It would be a heresy, but a much more sensible heresy, to say that seriousness is a vice. It is really a natural trend or lapse into taking one's self gravely, because it is the easiest thing to do. It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch. For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light. Satan fell by the force of gravity."
-from Orthodoxy
Yipes. Chesterton tends to get carried away sometimes on his turns-of-phrases, but I have to say I agree with his overall point. I especially identify with the second-to-last sentence (in quite the literal sense).
| By heiders | 08:41 AM
