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# Saturday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/26521/
- Published: 2012-12-22T06:11:16.000Z
- Updated: 2012-12-22T06:11:16.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

**Background**: When I was the editor of *[Gilbert Magazine](http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He recently gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chesterton-Mug-235x300.jpg "Chesterton Mug")

Chesterton Short(s)

Two Shorts Today:

1\. Chesterton had a profound influence on the prose style in which Thomas Merton wrote his 1948 best-seller, *The Seven Story Mountain*. According to Merton's biographer Michael Mott, Chesterton epitomized the kind of consciously literary, urbane, and "chatty" writing style that he, Merton, labored to avoid at all costs. \[*Seven Mountains*, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984, 229, p. 249\]

2\. In 1985 the heavy-metal rock band Iron Maiden released an album with the cheerful title, Live after Death. One of the songs included therein bears the title "Revelations"; and barely decipherable there, amid the successive detonations of electric guitar, someone is singing the words of Chesterton's famous 1905 Christian hymn, "Oh God of Earth and Altar."