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Question for the Knitting Circle and adjacent literature fiends, via a writing group friend: is there an established/canon chronology for Father Brown? She's asking specifically about book chronology and not the movie. Is Father Brown's age the same as Rev. John O'Connor off of whom the character is based? Is there an established period in which the books are set?
(I have no idea who to tag so feel free to do so if you wish.)
“It is the one great weakness of journalism as a picture of our modern existence, that it must be a picture made up entirely of exceptions. We announce on flaring posters that a man has fallen off a scaffolding. We do not announce on flaring posters that a man has not fallen off a scaffolding. Yet this latter fact is fundamentally more exciting, as indicating that that moving tower of terror and mystery, a man, is still abroad upon the earth. That the man has not fallen off a scaffolding is really more sensational; and it is also some thousand times more common. But journalism cannot reasonably be expected thus to insist upon the permanent miracles. Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual. However democratic they may be, they are only concerned with the minority.”
—GK Chesterton, The Ball and the Cross
«Some experience of modern movements of the sort called "advanced" has led me to the conviction that they generally repose upon some experience peculiar to the rich. It is so with that fallacy of free love of which I have already spoken; the idea of sexuality as a string of episodes.»
— G.K. Chesterton: What’s Wrong with the World
Honestly I feel like my bad experience with fandom steps into a larger problem.
Society has become a d-measuring rat race and we get punished for doing what makes us happy no matter what it is or why That’s been the case for for conceptualizing reimagined RWBY AU and niche writing in the past.
It’s made for “the wrong people” when I should be writing for “the right people”
I don’t mean to sound like a hippy, but society seems to have become so egocentric, all to the benefit to an elite who has hijack the concept of the greater good to work to their benefit.
There's no respect for anyone and their limits and boundaries and tastes from the broad things to nitty gritty details or walks of live regardless if they are moral or not
Everything it pit against each other, majority or minority, niche or mass, objective or subjective, individual or collective.
It's no longer "I'm different than you."
It's now "I'm these things and like these things and dislike these things because I'm a better person than you."
It's not just politics, its pop-culture, hobbies, jobs, everything.
The more I look up CS Lewis and remember GK Chesterton, the more I realize how screwed up everything is.
“It is Capitalism that has forced a moral feud and a commercial competition between the sexes; that has destroyed the influence of the parent in favor of the influence of the employer; that has driven men from their homes to look for jobs; that has forced them to live near their factories or their firms instead of near their families; and, above all, that has encouraged for commercial reasons, a parade of publicity and garish novelty, which is in its nature the death of all that was called dignity and modesty by our mothers and fathers.”-G.K. Chesterton