| 'Seeing' Of Course Meaning 'To Behold With One's Own Eyes' And Not The Modern 'Meeting Socially' |
[Apr. 27th, 2009|10:46 am] |
"I could never mix in the common murmur of that rising generation against monogamy, because no restriction on sex seemed so odd and unexpected as sex itself. To be allowed, like Endymion, to make love to the moon and then to complain that Jupiter kept his own moons in a harem seemed to me (bred on fairy tales like Endymion's) a vulgar anti-climax. Keeping to one woman is a small price for so much as seeing one woman. To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. It was incommensurate with the terrible excitement of which one was talking. It showed, not an exaggerated sensibility to sex, but a curious insensibility to it."
- G.K. Chesterton,
Orthodoxy
MAN, I love this guy. As a bonus, the more and more I read him, the more and more I see how he has influenced Neil Gaiman himself to the point where I now recognize that one of Gaiman's more beloved characters is essentially Chesterton.
How oddly their paths have diverged since this meeting of minds.
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