Comments for The Key That Fits the Lock, Part 14 at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 21 May 2013 15:42:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/the-key-that-fits-the-lock-part-14.html#comment-15575 Stanley -- you are right. I keep getting the two reversed, on just that line. It is something that GK would have said. But Lewis is the one who did say it, and in a really powerful passage, too -- where he reminds us of the two destinations of the supposedly ordinary being in front of us. - Tony Esolen Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:27:18 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/the-key-that-fits-the-lock-part-14.html#comment-15574 achilles- if you are an "intellectual peasant" i am your slave, or rather, the one "unworthy to untie your sneaker laces...." in comparison to the astute writers and readers here at TCT, i know next to nothing, but i know what rings incredibly true, and pure, and lovely, and is of good report. therefore, it is always my great joy to read over and over the posts of Dr. Anthony Esolen (here and at Magnificat) and to "think on these things." Dear Prof., St. Paul is mighty proud of you, i do venture! - debby Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:42:34 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/the-key-that-fits-the-lock-part-14.html#comment-15572 Xabi, oh my goodness, I think you got your metaphysical cart before your epistemological horse. Dr. Esolen, I don’t really understand all that post modern gobblydegook, but I, as a lowly intellectual peasant, have always found your writing to be as straight forward, honest and as simple as it can be without being simpler. It seems to me you employ Aristotle’s parsimony while stopping far short of Ockham’s razor. It is always a joy, always a pleasure and always a lesson that I sincerely hope is not lost on all the smarty pants out there. - Achilles Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:18:59 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/the-key-that-fits-the-lock-part-14.html#comment-15571 Wonderful column as usual -- look forward to the "more on that deceit later"! In the meantime, you mentioned early in the article, "Chesterton’s saying that there are no merely ordinary people." Chesterton said so many, and so many wonderful, things that he may very well have said this to for all I know. But I associate that line most strongly with C. S. Lewis' comment in his sermon "The Weight of Glory." Might this be the reference you intended? - Stanley Anderson Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:24:51 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/the-key-that-fits-the-lock-part-14.html#comment-15570 @anthony, as u well know, your writing is elegant, playful and stylistically rich, but this cuts both ways: sometimes (for me anyways) the prose itself obfuscates the pedagogical character of your exegesis. This was not the case today. May we all seek holiness in the "ordinary". - Xabi Kiano Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:46:10 +0100