tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781329426295611964.post8389967205012959702..comments2023-07-16T07:52:42.044-05:00Comments on Three Hundred Words: Estropeado Españolcyurkaninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10544849696034906766noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781329426295611964.post-52420427480426525942011-01-16T17:24:53.529-06:002011-01-16T17:24:53.529-06:00Smsigler? ... someone said that to me once... once...Smsigler? ... someone said that to me once... <i>once</i>... lol!<br /><br />I think Belloc and Chesterton serve their purpose but I've never held them up as the sacred cows that they are now. Especially now as never before. I think you're right about their epic views but I nevertheless do love Chesterton's poem.cyurkaninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10544849696034906766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781329426295611964.post-20281138320975812922011-01-16T13:33:43.624-06:002011-01-16T13:33:43.624-06:00+JMJ+
One of those "swept back, having acco...+JMJ+ <br /><br />One of those "swept back, having accomplished nothing but an epic" things that Hillaire Belloc wrote of, I guess. <br /><br />Wonderfully heroic stuff to read about . . . but I've started to wonder about these ineffectual "epics" that Belloc and G.K. Chesterton have taught more recent generations--the generations which them out of the charming Englishy obscurity which became them far more than their new sacred cow status--to revere as the most glorious moments in Church history. I suppose all Catholics need a triumphalist fix now and then, but that alone makes for a very narrow and very naive view.<br /><br />PS--I just came across a blogger who said that captchas are her biggest pet peeve. When she sees them, she doesn't bother to leave a comment: they disgust her so. I couldn't believe it! Captchas are like the fortune cookies you get for free in a restaurant--or (so I've heard) like the grits you get for free in a Southern restaurant--and like, you know, grace (like Igor)! Let Forrest Gump have his boxes of chocolates: I say that life is like a list of captchas!<br /><br />PPS--So . . . does "smsigler" mean anything to you?Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781329426295611964.post-80012905706291402702011-01-16T08:05:28.520-06:002011-01-16T08:05:28.520-06:00You and your constant "captcha" watching...You and your constant "captcha" watching! lolcyurkaninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10544849696034906766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781329426295611964.post-16628520226196668742011-01-16T08:04:28.066-06:002011-01-16T08:04:28.066-06:00I think so too, and also that all the gains that w...I think so too, and also that all the gains that were made at that battle in defense of the West were all but nearly wiped back away within a few years due to the renewal of all the political infighting.cyurkaninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10544849696034906766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781329426295611964.post-9974806035686926312011-01-16T07:06:41.824-06:002011-01-16T07:06:41.824-06:00+JMJ+
There's something heartbreaking about ...+JMJ+ <br /><br />There's something heartbreaking about Christian soldiers falling into the hands of Turk slavers so soon after Lepanto--not in the big political sense, but in the sense of evil always coming back to take out its spite on the little people. <br /><br />(Captcha is "lepart" . . . which looks a little like "lepant" if you cross your eyes!)Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.com