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Chesterton's Wonder

GK Chesterton is one of my all-time favourite writers. He was a volcano of creative thinking, larger than life really. The art college in the 1890s was rather like that postmodern mood today. Nihilistic, cynical, negative, pessimistic and so on. But he said the more he went deep, deep, deep into the dark and the negative, he was stopped by one thing. A dandelion. I love that because many people, you know, you're lucky in Ireland and you have people like Paul Kings North who live in the West,. You're much closer to nature. Most of us live in cities, everything's not a matter of wonder. It

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