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...have grown old along with their idol will welcome reverently these half-forgotten fragments; to neo-Shavians the book will have a more archeological interest. One lengthy dramatic dialog, originally intended as a part of Back to Methuselah, has never before been published, contains a masterly caricature of Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, under the inspired name of Immenso Champernoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shavian Shavings | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...past six weeks the faculty of the University of Notre Dame, famed for football, has been temporarily increased by one member: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, paradoxologist, author (The Flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grateful Lecturer | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...example of Critic Orage's own criticism (of a passage by Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton): "Read one after the other in the ordinary way, they [the paradoxes] stun the mind like a series of shocks; no meaning can survive them. And considered sentence by sentence they scarcely repay the trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncommon Sense | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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