5/11/2023 0 Comments The complete father brown stories![]() ![]() The garden was large and elaborate, and there were many exits from the house into the garden. “It was an old house, with high walls and tall poplars almost overhanging the Seine but the oddity and perhaps the police value of its architecture was this: that there was no ultimate exit at all except through this front door, which was guarded by Ivan and the armoury. I am the critic detective of this book, and the book leads the way for me to plod behind, I guess. Salt is sugar, tangerines nuts, and broken windows and a smashed bowl of soup. But what of the man between, more creative than both? The criminal is the creative artist, the detective the critic. ![]() As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.”Ī famous French detective and his sought criminal both bow to the priest when the apparent absurdisms become meaningful. ![]() In short, there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. Nelson does die in the instant of victory and a man named Williams does quite accidentally murder a man named Williamson it sounds like a sort of infanticide. I have seen both these things myself within the last few days. A tree does stand up in the landscape of a doubtful journey in the exact and elaborate shape of a note of interrogation. A few clouds in heaven do come together into the staring shape of one human eye. “The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. ![]()
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