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    <body><![CDATA[<em>&quot;'Why shouldn’t we quarrel about a word?  What is the good of words if they aren’t important enough to quarrel over?  Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn’t any difference between them?  If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn’t there be a quar...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25162577">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A metaphysical journey into the mind, thoughts, beliefs and perspectives. Memorable but dream-like experience. Strong imagery, thought provoking.   ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A long, drawn-out, hilarious duel to the death between two morons: one an atheist, one a christian.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably the best of Chesterton's fiction that I have read.  I think this book may be better than The Man Who Was Thursday.  The society outlined in this book looks eerily like our own.  The whole world has gone insane, yet it has placed the sane in the asylum.  Chesterton does justice to the fact t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33421267">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You get of glimpse of why this man inspired CS Lewis to such a degree.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Q: Why haven't I read this?<br/>A: I don't have a clue. ]]></body>
    
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