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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alarms and Discursions, by G. K. ChestertonCopyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check thecopyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributingthis or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this ProjectGutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit theheader without written permission.Please read the "legal small print," and other information about theeBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included isimportant information about your specific rights and restrictions inhow the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make adonation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts****eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971*******These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!*****Title: Alarms and DiscursionsAuthor: G. K. ChestertonRelease Date: January, 2006 [EBook #9656][This file was first posted on October 13, 2003]Edition: 10Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: US-ASCII*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, ALARMS AND DISCURSIONS ***Scanned by Georges Allaire. Send errors to Martin Ward<Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk>ALARMS AND DISCURSIONSby G. K. Chesterton

CONTENTS1: INTRODUCTORY: ON GARGOYLES2: THE SURRENDER OF A COCKNEY3: THE NIGHTMARE4: THE TELEGRAPH POLES5: A DRAMA OF DOLLS6: THE MAN AND HIS NEWSPAPER7: THE APPETITE OF EARTH8: SIMMONS AND THE SOCIAL TIE9: CHEESE10: THE RED TOWN11: THE FURROWS12: THE PHILOSOPHY OF SIGHT-SEEING13: A CRIMINAL HEAD14: THE WRATH OF THE ROSES15: THE GOLD OF GLASTONBURY16: THE FUTURISTS17: DUKES18: THE GLORY OF GREY19: THE ANARCHIST20: HOW I FOUND THE SUPERMAN21: THE NEW HOUSE22: THE WINGS OF STONE23: THE THREE KINDS OF MEN24: THE STEWARD OF THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS25: THE FIELD OF BLOOD26: THE STRANGENESS OF LUXURY

27: THE TRIUMPH OF THE DONKEY28: THE WHEEL29: FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE30: ETHANDUNE31: THE FLAT FREAK32: THE GARDEN OF THE SEA33: THE SENTIMENTALIST34: THE WHITE HORSES35: THE LONG BOW36: THE MODERN SCROOGE37: THE HIGH PLAINS38: THE CHORUS39: A ROMANCE OF THE MARSHESIntroductory: On GargoylesAlone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disusedabbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyedvisage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamentalwater-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. It lay there,scoured by ancient rains or striped by recent fungus, but stilllooking like the head of some huge dragon slain by a primeval hero.And as I looked at it, I thought of the meaning of the grotesque,and passed into some symbolic reverie of the three great stages of art.IOnce upon a time there lived upon an island a merry and innocent people,mostly shepherds and tillers of the earth. They were republicans,like all primitive and simple souls; they talked over their affairsunder a tree, and the nearest approach they had to a personal rulerwas a sort of priest or white witch who said their prayers for them.They worshipped the sun, not idolatrously, but as the golden crownof the god whom all such infants see almost as plainly as the sun.Now this priest was told by his people to build a great tower,pointing to the sky in salutation of the Sun-god; and he pondered longand heavily before he picked his materials. For he was resolved to use

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