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Lecture 81: A Prequel to Orthodoxy posted

03-19-2012 | 1 Comment | Nancy Carpentier Brown

Here you’ll find a very interesting lecture on a Dorothy Collins collection of Daily News (mostly) articles which led to the writing of Orthodoxy. The book was titled Lunacy and Letters. Read it here.

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  1. Chris Mabrey
    Chris Mabrey03-20-2012

    What a strange and wonderful coincidence, as I just ordered this book, used from Amazon! I was perusing our local used book store this past weekend and came across a collection called “The New Catholic Treasury of Wit and Humor”. Imagine my surprise and delight to discover that it contained a short gem by Chesterton entitled “The Roots of the World”, which according to the Acknowledgements, originated from “Lunacy and Letters”. My bookstore find also contained other such unusual stories as “I heard jokes behind the Iron Curtain” by Nino Lo Bello and “Oodles of Noodles in Hong Kong” by Elwood D Baumann.