I am almost tempted to say that it is still a very promising subject-for somebody else. I think that a harlequinade like “ The Flying Inn” was an extremely promising subject, but I very strongly doubt whether I kept the promise. I think “ The Napoleon of Notting Hill” was a book very well worth writing but I am not sure that it was ever written. “y real judgment of my own work,” he confessed, “is that I have spoilt a number of jolly good ideas in my time.” Chesterton had a low opinion of his own abilities as a novelist. The first is the wisdom of innocence, or the sanity of sanctity, whereby we see the miracle of life with eyes full of wonder the second is the self-centredness of one who refuses the challenge of growing-up. Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday” is the tension that exists between the childlikeness demanded by Christ and the childishness that St.
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