Michael Schaffner
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Michael Schaffner
“I think God has given us the love of special places, of a hearth and of a native land, for good reason…because otherwise, we might worship eternity, the largest of the idols-the mightiest of the rivals of God…
God bade be love one spot and serve it, and do all things however wild in praise of it, so that this one spot might be a witness against all
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For to him, and nearly all the educated youth of that epoch, the stars were cruel things. Though they glowed in the great dome every night, they were an enormous and ugly secret; they uncovered the nakedness of nature; they were a glimpse of the iron wheels and pulleys behind the scenes. For the young men of that sad time thought that the god always comes from the machine. They did not know that in reality the machine only comes from the god. In short, they were all pessimists, and starlight was atrocious to them— atrocious because it was true. All their universe was black with white spots.
(Chesterton, Manalive)
The wasp gets into the jam in hearty and hopeful efforts to get the jam into him. IN the same way the vulgar people want to enjoy life just as they want to enjoy gin—because they are too stupid to see that they are paying too big a price for it. That they never find happiness—that they don't even know how to look for it—is proved by the paralyzing clumsiness and ugliness of everything they do. Their discordant colours are cries of pain.
(Chesterton, Manalive)
Ambivalence of parenting:
For the goodness of good things, like the badness of bad things, is a prodigy past speech; it is to be pictured rather than spoken. We shall have gone deeper than the deeps of heaven and grown older than the oldest angels before we feel, even in its first faint vibrations, the everlasting violence of that double passion with which God hates and loves the world.
(Chesterton, Manalive)
You never know a husband till you marry him.
Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you? Disappointed! of course we'll be disappointed. -Chesterton, Man-alive
Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
source: UK’s Office of Budget Responsibility
“since life like a river is flowing, I care not how fast it rolls on, ma'am, on, while such purl on the bank still is growing, and such eyes light the waves as they run.“
Richard Swiveller’s poetry , Dickens’ The Curiosity Shop
Samson Brass feigning betrayal by Kit, Dickens’ The Curiosity Shop
Power of imagination (orange peels in water instead of wine), Dickens’ The Curiosity Shop