The Universe According to G. K. Chesterton: A Dictionary of the Mad, Mundane and Metaphysical (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by G. K. Chesterton

Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2013-12-03T05:00:00+00:00

INSOMNIA

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Jazz: a nightmare of noise, recalling the horns of hell, generally accompanied by an undercurrent of battering monotony; the Song of the Treadmill. (“On the Prison of Jazz,” Avowals and Denials)

Jingoism: irresponsibility, hysterical cruelty, looseness, vulgarity, and verbosity; in politics and patriotism, the habit of employing anger as a frivolity, drawing upon a reserve of wrath for a daily pleasure. (Daily News, June 26, 1901; May 25, 1907)

joke: something that need have no sense, except that one wild and supernatural sense which we call the sense of humor. (“The Flat Freak,” Alarms and Discursions)

journalism: writing badly; writing badly on an enormous scale; the art of doing dull things in a hurry; a machine for multiplying and magnifying one small thing indefinitely; the art of pretending to know. (“On Writing Badly,” A Handful of Authors; Illustrated London News, Feb. 7, 1925; G.K.’s Weekly, Mar. 28, 1925; Speech to the Johnson Society of London)

journalist: one who is vastly ignorant about many things, but who writes and talks about them all; a person who understands nothing except how to write about everything he does not understand. (The New York Times, Jan. 11, 1921; Week-end Review, Dec. 20, 1930)

joy: an elusive and elvish matter that is our reason for existing; the uproarious labor by which all things live. (“A Defence of Farce,” The Defendant; “Authority and the Adventurer,” Orthodoxy)

junk: treasures, of which the most precious are difficult to connect with any purpose whatever. (“The Mask of Midas,” The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 13)

jury: the only really representative parliament, because people do not want to serve on it. (G.K.’s Weekly, Nov. 11, 1932)

justice: the first human sense, which is the critic of all human institutions; an abstract, virgin, and wholly virtuous intolerance of a tale ending wrong; the refusal of the intellect to accept the prospect of everything being for ever upside down; a thing for which fools look in history and wise men in the Day of Judgment. (Illustrated London News, Aug. 17, 1907; Feb. 3, 1917; “Thomas Carlyle,” Varied Types)

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