On Nothing and Kindred Subjects

by Belloc · Cluster: Familiar Essay · Paradox · The Common Man

Abstract

A collection of Belloc’s familiar essays, opening with a mock-metaphysical dedication praising Nothing as the stuff the world was made of. The pieces range over inns, railways, tea, lost manuscripts, death and the pleasure of taking up one’s pen, blending whimsy, paradox and reflection.

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TO NOTHING. THE HUMAN RACE IN GRATITUDE.
ON NOTHING. ON THE PLEASURE OF TAKING UP ONE’S PEN
ON GETTING RESPECTED IN INNS AND HOTELS
ON IGNORANCE
ON ADVERTISEMENT
HENRY DE LA MERE ULLMO.
ON A HOUSE
THE ILLNESS OF MY MUSE
ON A DOG AND A MAN ALSO
ON TEA
ON THEM
ON CONVERSATIONS IN TRAINS
ON THE RETURN OF THE DEAD
ON THE APPROACH OF AN AWFUL DOOM
ON A RICH MAN WHO SUFFERED
ON A CHILD WHO DIED
ON A LOST MANUSCRIPT
ON A MAN WHO WAS PROTECTED BY ANOTHER MAN
ON NATIONAL DEBTS (WHICH ARE IMAGINARIES AND TRUE NOTHINGS OF STATE)
ON LORDS
ON A WINGED HORSE AND THE EXILE WHO RODE HIM
ON A MAN AND HIS BURDEN
ON A FISHERMAN AND THE QUEST OF PEACE
ON A HERMIT WHOM I KNEW
OF AN UNKNOWN COUNTRY
ON A FAERY CASTLE
ON A SOUTHERN HARBOUR
ON A YOUNG MAN AND AN OLDER MAN
ON THE DEPARTURE OF A GUEST
ON DEATH
ON COMING TO AN END

Readability (prose)-14.7 Flesch ease37.1 FK grade39.2 Fog10% complex87.6 words/sent

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Forms & Genres: Essay, Sketch, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Paradox, Wit, Nonsense, Mortality, Nostalgia, Solitude Motifs: Inn Tavern, Road, Letters and Writing, Wine and Drink Settings: England, Inn, Oxford Archetypes: The Writer Topoi: Memento Mori

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