On Anything by Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953)

Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days through which all men have passed, during which one believes what one is told, an old and crusty woman of great wealth, to whom I was describing what I intended to do with life (which in those days seemed to me of infinite duration), said to me, "You are building castles in Spain." I was too much in awe of this woman not on account of the wealth, but on account of the crust to go further into the matter, but it seemed to me a very foolish thing to say, for I had never been to Spain, and I had nothing wherewith to build a castle and indeed such a project had never passed through my head. -- Hilaire Belloc

On Building Castles in Spain
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On Clay
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On No Book
– 00:06:25
On Irony
– 00:08:53
On the Simplicity of Words
– 00:11:09
On Secluded Places
– 00:11:20
On People in Books
– 00:13:41
On the Effect of Time
– 00:14:31
On a Poet
– 00:14:00
On a Prophet
– 00:10:11
On Believing
– 00:10:29
On the Air of the Dordogne
– 00:09:23
On the Sites of the Revolution
– 00:09:27
On a Secret Letter
– 00:13:27
On the Shadows
– 00:09:45
On the Canvasser
– 00:11:12
On the Abstracted Man
– 00:11:11
On the Method of History
– 00:13:06
On History in Travel
– 00:10:59
On the Traveller
– 00:11:26
On Milton
– 00:11:22
On Hans Christian Anderson
– 00:08:35
On the Christmas of 1808
– 00:07:49
On Communications
– 00:12:25
On Astarte
– 00:11:18
On the Hungry Student
– 00:12:59
On the Brigand of Radicofani
– 00:19:36
On the Honest Man and the Devil
– 00:11:42
On Compiegne
– 00:10:46
On the Candour of Maturity
– 00:12:29
On the Fog
– 00:13:23
On the Spaniard
– 00:11:49
On the Fortress
– 00:11:06
On the Hunter
– 00:14:42
On Our Inheritance
– 00:10:26
On the New Road
– 00:11:52
On Two Towns
– 00:12:44
On the Judgment of Robspierre
– 00:12:09

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Egnaramuse

Belloc Rocks

Hilarious, insightful, random. B picks common subjects like railways, tea, cats etc and turns them into a philosophy. This is not heavy reading. You can skip around. Some great quotable lines. Great book for a 20 min car ride. His simple, almost conversational style is unique. The reader is not annoying-huge compliment. He is invisible, not over done, has no weird accent, or pronunciation.

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