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Ep. 19 – Improbable and Magical: A Tribute To G.K. Chesterton

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Chesterton's Sense of Nonsense

Chesterton believed in a consistency between reason and faith. But that didn't prevent him from seeing the deeper mystery, he says. There is a kind of nonsense which we could call magical nonsense or trivial rubbish. So it is the nonsense, the divine nonsense has this extraordinary humour with it. Which he tries to evoke in his poem The Fish.

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