For Josiah Nance.

This week, Anodos finds two brothers and makes a pledge of friendship with them. Then he sings to them and makes them weep.

This week, we bring you Chapter IV of G.K. Chesterton's Heretics, "Mr. Bernard Shaw." Enjoy!

This week, we get into Chapter XIX of Phantastes, in which Anodos sees three visions and then has some kind of experience with ultimate reality. Huh.

This week, we bring you chapter 3 of G.K. Chesterton's Heretics, in which Chesterton discusses the peculiarities of Rudyard Kipling's militarism.

 

For additional reading, see George Orwell's essay on Kipling, here: http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/kipling/english/e_rkip

This week, we begin the way mystical part of Phantastes, in which Anodos tries to drown himself, and floats instead ('cause he's a witch, I think,) and then finds a little rainbow boat and clambers into it. Yes, it is very strange.

This week, we bring you chapter 2 of G.K. Chesterton's Heretics, which covers what Chesterton calls "The negative spirit:" that is to say, a desire to achieve goodness by subtracting badness from the person as we find him. Chesterton calls this effort absurd.

Our newest book kicks off today! This is the first chapter of Heretics, by G.K. Chesterton, in which Chesterton discusses why "orthodoxy," both as a term, and as a concept, is important.