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(Chesterton 338-339) autobiography

"One accepts, as one must of all detectives, the done'e of the hero's presence at the scene of the crime. What is tedious is the ease with which the hero solves his cases on the basis of intuition. The recurrent formula soon becomes wearisome: a number of suspects are paraded before the reader, clues are given or withheld, and Father Brown after some discussion announces that he knows--and has always known--the identity of the criminal. The particualr psychological insight or theological maxim is then displayed for the reader's edification, and the story ends.
(Clipper 124)

"Father Brown, who prefers intuition of the truth, which depends on a deep knowledge of the human heart instead of methodical observation."
(Clipper 123)

"For Chesterton, who was himself addicted to reading detective stories, this popular genre was not merely escapist amusement for the masses but a powerful vehicle for transmitting the moral, religous, and political ideals of society."
(Clipper 120)

Clipper, Lawrence J. _G. K. Chesterton. Twayne Publishers, Inc. New York 1974

in some of the stories ". . .he solves the problem entirely by his psychological interpretation of the characters".
(hollis 181)

"One cannot help sometimes wishing that he might for once be wrong."
Hollis 181)

"In _The Arrow of Heaven_ Father Brown turns himself in the last paragraphs from detective into prophet and denounces the American family which had been anxious to espose the criminal when they thought that he was a man of no consequence and then became much more anxious to conceal him when they found that he was a reich man and a member of their own family"
(Hollis 181)

"Writers of detective stories have to make their murderers more interesting that the murderer of reality, to save their stories from intolerable boredom."

(Hollis 181)

"The technique of the story requires that the murder be always commited by the person whom one would not naturally suspect."

(Hollis 181)

"The criticism of basic improbability that can be made against all stories about private detectives can be made against them. In real life we never run across these extraordinary crimes or at the most once in a lifetime."
(Hollis 179)

"In real life crimes are more often than not commited by the person who from the first looked the most prbable perpetrator. Not so in the detective story, and in Chesterton's stories both the crime and the solution are almost always of bizarre complexity that quite challenges probability."
(Hollis 179-180)

"...the notion of creating a priest-detective was suggested to Chesterton by his discovery that Monsignor O'Connor knew through the confessional so very much more about the secrets of the sould than the simple young Cambridge undergraduates who thought of him as a man innocent of the world."
(Hollis 180)



Hollis, Christopher. _The Mind of Chesterton_. University of Miami Press: Coral Gables, Florida. 1970

Okay, been a while. Had a good counselling session. Breakthrough really. I haven't gotten as involved in my thesis because I didn't want to go into manic mode or ignore other parts of my life, which is somehting I used to do, but have realized that other parts of my life are importatnt too. I just need that middle ground. Having a somewhat regular schedule this summer should help A LOT! I didn't realize how much stress that was putting me under.