Saturday, January 26, 2013

A depressing fixity of outlook but great mobility of exposition

Wonderful sentences.

From G.K. Chesterton's The Father Brown Omnibus, the story The Duel of Dr. Hirsch. In my edition, page 264.

This calls to mind a very specific character; one that I encounter far too often. The person who is deeply and well versed in a particular belief, though one that is not actually provable.
They were both young. They were both atheists, with a depressing fixity of outlook but great mobility of exposition.

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