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GOD_OF_GONGS

                                             June 17, 2008

At present, if you consult wikpedia on
G.K. Chesterton or Father Brown, you'll find
many glowing examples of Chesterton besting
the likes of George Bernard Shaw....
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But there's no mention of things like
the story "The God of Gongs":

     "He also was black, and yet his glossy skin
     flung back the light at eight angles or more.
     It is needless to say that he wore white spats
     and a white slip inside his waistcoat.  The red
     flower stood up in his buttonhole aggressively,
     as if it had suddenly grown there.  And in the
     way he carried his cane in one hand and his
     cigar in the other there was a certain
     attitude-- an attitude we must always remember
     when we talk of racial prejudices: something
     innocent and insolent-- the cake walk.

          'Sometimes,' said Flambeau, looking after
     him, 'I'm not surprised that they lynch them.'

          'I am never surprised,' said Father Brown,
     'at any work of hell.  But as I was saying,' he
     resumed, as the negro, still ostentatiously
     pulling on his yellow gloves, betook himself
     briskly towards the watering-place

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In this one, the murders turn out to be the
sacrifices of a nasty voodoo cult...


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