GKC Wednesday

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine, 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 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.

Chesterton Short(s)

Add, if you have not already, the name of Enoch Wimperdick to the list of Chesterton's likenesses in fiction. Wimperdick, an "eminent convert and Catholic apologist" with fat "overflowing his neck and wrists" is the not-very-friendly caricature of GKC offered by H. G. Wells in his 1932 novel, The Blupington of Blup. [London: Hutchinson, 1932]