A DEFENCE OF PENNY DREADFULS by G.K. Chesterton
One of the strangest examples of the degree to which ordinary
life is undervalued is the example of popular literature, the
vast mass of which we contentedly describe as vulgar. The
boy's novelette may be ignorant in a literary sense, which is
only like saying that modern novel is ignorant in the
chemical sense, or the economic sense, or the astronomical
sense; but it is not vulgar intrinsically--it is the actual
centre of a million flaming imaginations.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcs6mpw/gkc/books/penny-dreadfuls.html
-- Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
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-----Original Message----- From: marianne.macdonald@lineone.net Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 9:34 AM
Penny dreadfuls?? What???
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