I started 'Tremendous Trifles' today, another book filled with essays. The introduction is promising: Chesterton explains that, instead of taking the high ground and writing about big things, he will take a simple perspective and write about trifles: 'I will sit still and let the marvels and the adventures settle on me like flies. There are plenty of them, I assure you. The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.'
Now that I am slowly becoming more acquainted with Chesterton's thought, I begin to see parallels in the different books: Rudyard Kipling is discussed in a similar manner both in the title essay of 'Tremendous trifles' as in 'Heretics'.
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