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Originally Posted by issybird
Fantasyfan beat me to that quote!
Reading Chesterton, I always wonder about the religious undercurrents, but I'm not sure there are any, or at least any fully-formed, here - an early work, of course. And yet there seem to be elements of the Holy Fool about Basil and I thought this article seemed apropos. The Holy Fool is more an orthodox notion than western, but Basil of course is an eastern saint and St. John Chrysostom also gets a mention. |
That's a very interesting article, Issybird. Thanks for sharing it.
As I read it, I was reminded that the archetype of The Fool in the Tarot card deck may encapsulate something of the concept of the Holy Fool. Charles W. S. Williams seems to use it this way in his novel
The Greater Trumps.