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g.k Chesterton. The Poet and the Lunatics
The Poet and the Lunatics
Table of Contents
I. — THE FANTASTIC FRIENDS
II. — THE YELLOW BIRD
III. — THE SHADOW OF THE SHARK
IV. — THE CRIME OF GABRIEL GALE
V. — THE FINGER OF STONE
VI. — THE HOUSE OF THE PEACOCK
VII. — THE PURPLE JEWEL
VIII. — THE ASYLUM OF ADVENTURE
THE END
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G.K. Chesterton
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The group felt a growing bewilderment at his new attitude; it seemed to fill the stage in a strange fashion; nor was it lessened when he actually or apparently fulfilled his undertaking, coming out of the inn twenty minutes afterwards, and cheerfully announcing that the inn-keeper would not hang himself again. The next moment he had jumped on to the table under the sign with a large piece of chalk in his hand, and was making sketchy and slashing strokes of design on the brown face of the Rising Sun.
Lady Diana was looking on at the operation with a dark and watchful face. She was of a type more intellectual than the others, and she recognized a real thread of thought running through all that seemed to them transcendental tomfoolery. She had understood the implied irony of his first reference to their host; the moral that had come before the frightful fable. After all, they had certainly been thinking of everything about the inn except the inn-keeper. She could see there was an intelligent case, and a practical example, of the occasions when the poet can be more useful than the policeman. But she was conscious also of something baffling about him above and beyond all this; of a disquiet in him with some deeper cause, and something in his eye that belied the new levity of his manner. His draughtsmanship, however, was proceeding in the most dashing and even dazzling fashion, when Lady Diana spoke:
