Alarms and Discursions - Paperback - 9791041945368

" Alone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. It lay there, scoured ancient rains or striped recent fungus, but still looking like the head of some huge dragon slain a primeval hero. And as I looked at it, I thought of the meaning of the grotesque, and passed into some symbolic reverie of the three great stages of art..."

• | Author: G. K. Chesterton
• | Publisher: Culturea
• | Publication Date: Feb 22, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 100 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-13: 9791041945368