The intent of the essay is C to introduce the book in a self-deprecating way. Chesterton uses humor and a tone of self-mockery to present his work, acknowledging its imperfections and the circumstances of its creation while also expressing his affection for literature and his readers. This self-deprecation serves to lower expectations for the collection, even as he invites readers to engage with it.
From all things considered by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. I cannot understand the people who take literature serious. but I can love them. and I do. Out of my love, I warn them to keep clear of this book. It is a collection of crude And shapeless papers upon current or rather flying subjects. And they must be published pretty much as they stand. They were written as a rule at the last moment. They were handed in the moment before it was too late. And I do not think that our Commonwealth would have been shaken to its foundations if they had been handed in the moment after. They must go out now with all their imperfections on their head, or rather on mine, for their vices Are too vital to be improved with a blue pencil or with anything I can think of, except dynamite. Their chief vice is that so many of them are serious because I had no time to make them trivial. It is so easy to be solemn. It is so hard to be frivolous. Let any honest reader shut his eyes for a few moments and ask himself whether he would rather be asked in the next two hours to write the front page of the times, which is full of long leading articles or the front page of bit bits, which is full of short jokes. If the reader is fine Conscientious. Fellow, I take him for he will at once replied that he would rather on the spur of the moment, right 10 times articles that then one bit bits joke responsibility a heavy and cautious responsible of speech. It is easiest. Thing in the world, anybody can do it. That is why. that is why so many tired, elderly and wealthy men go in for politics. They are responsible because they have no, there have not strength of mind let to be irresponsible. It is more dignified. to sit still, then to dance the barn dance. It is also easier. So and the easy pages I keep myself on the whole on the level of the times it is only occasionally that I will leap upwards almost to the level of bit bits. What is the intent of this essay? A to convince readers that the book is not worth reading B to explain the difference between times and bit bits. C to introduce the book in a self deprecating way D to show that the responsibility is easier than irresponsibility.
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