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| a tremendous trifle |
G.K. Chesterton could write about almost everything and make it... entertaining...amusing... profound,,,.mysterious...and, yes, sometimes a little weird. In one essay, he imagined lying in bed and drawing on the ceiling. In another, he filled his pockets with colored chalk, got some brown paper from the old woman in the kitchen, and went out walking and drawing. Speaking of pockets, he once wrote an entire essay on the contents of his pockets. Once he was challenged by the police as he stopped in the woods and practiced knife throwing at a tree. He mostly missed. And then there was the weird tale of his ride on a train carrying a dead body. His book of essays, Tremendouos Trifles, is filled with essays about nothing and everything and is, indeed, "tremendous" and one of my favorites!
