" Alone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. It lay there, scoured ancient rains or striped recent fungus, but still looking like the head of some huge dragon slain 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..."
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" Alone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. It lay there, scoured ancient rains or striped recent fungus, but still looking like the head of some huge dragon slain 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..."
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G. K. Chesterton wrote thousands of essays during his literary career. This book is a small collection of them. They include such topics as: "A Visit to the Zoo", "Democracy as an Alarm", and "Fortgetfulness". Some are slightly over one page in length and other run over five pages. Apparently, this is a reprint of a collection originally published before 1920. Our modern would-be journalists should be required to read these essays to see how "real" journalists once worked!