{"id":38910,"date":"2018-12-03T13:43:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/?p=38910"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:56:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:56:24","slug":"lecture-103-pieces-of-a-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/store\/lecture-103-pieces-of-a-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 103: Pieces of a Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Collected Works, Volume 14, Part Three<\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>What Might Have Been<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to G.K. Chesterton&#8217;s own account, he became a journalist by accident. But it is clear that he was an\u00a0aspiring writer long before he made his living as a writer. The discovery of his early notebooks revealed that he was developing his literary skills just as a master musician must practice and practice on his instrument, taking whatever ready and innate talent and utterly mastering that art. Reading these stories, some complete, most incomplete, is like listening to that prodigy at practice. There are brief flourishes of virtuosity, there are also random but still beautiful notes, left hanging in the air. There is the frustration of hearing only part of a complete work, there is the anticipation of hearing something not quite ready for the audience. We are eavesdropping, listening through the wall. It is both frustrating and exhilarating.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the comparison to a painter would be even more appropriate. We are seeing sketches, color studies, creative experiments, but no finished masterpieces. He can indeed paint vivid pictures using only words. He can combine two or three words perfectly, in a way we could\u00a0not have imagined, the way a painter combines two colors in an entirely new juxtaposition. He paints familiar scenes to make them startling. He makes wildly imaginative vistas look like classical landscapes. Here are some of the things we see in this gallery of early Chesterton:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the earliest fragment, a hero named\u00a0Flickerflash\u00a0escapes from goblins and is sheltered in the forest, comforted by the chattering of a squirrel and the banging of a woodpecker.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In \u201cThe Queen of the Evening Star,\u201d we meet a magical woman, not unlike an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and we also meet, appropriately, the earliest of the many Chesterton characters named Gabriel. Unlike Hope, Syme, and Gale, this Gabriel has no last name.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In \u201cThe Bells of St. Cuthbert,\u201d the\u00a0saint sits in the belfry of his hermitage and decides to let the ringing bells go free, cutting the ropes and watching them fly away, telling them that he will let them know when they must return. What an image. But we never learn of their adventures.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>We\u00a0do learn, however, of the adventures of Prince Wild-fire, who \u201cseemed as if he had come to edge of the world, and, as science was not invented then, perhaps he had.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>\u201cA\u00a0Traveller&#8217;s\u00a0Tale\u201d is a rare and very revealing first-person narrative. The\u00a0narrator describes growing larger and larger against his will, being told that he speaks very well, and that he is known as \u201cthe poor mad boy who stares at everything.\u201d He is struggling against madness but also against greatness. He desires to be simply normal. In a passage that pre-figures his later writing about the Book of Job, he tells of being the first to witness creation and achieving that feeling of being \u201cindifferent to all the pranks of heaven and earth.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>There is one other, even more wildly creative, first-person narrative called \u201cApotheosis,\u201d in which the narrator is none other than God. But it is not megalomania. It is a compassionate account of his love for a fellow image-maker. He has heard the song of the woodcarver.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the few complete\u00a0tales in this collection is the tightly-woven \u201cConsistency,\u201d which features a shadow of The Quote: \u201cHe was. . . a Roman Catholic and a Royalist, who believed everything, lest he\u00a0should believe nothing.\u201d Hmm.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>In \u201cWhy the Moon Was Made,\u201d Chesterton offers\u00a0an amazing insight into the subjectivity of nineteenth century Protestantism, answering Kierkegaard&#8217;s arguments without even having heard them, as a group of Scottish Covenanters debate why the moon was made. Each has his own very narrow interpretation with no consideration of a larger, universal truth. 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This story about stories would appear to be merely\u00a0Sisyphusian, because they would sit through the same experience the next evening with the same results, and again after that. \u201cThe Story of the Unfinished Stories\u201d is a plot for Camus. But we need not bother with it because we know what all these stories led to. We know how Chesterton&#8217;s story ends. And where ours will end. 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