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Excerpts from "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" by G.K. Chesterton [Boulnois sounds like bull nose to Me. - G]:

MR CALHOUN KIDD was a very young gentleman with a very old face, a face dried up, framed in blue-black hair and a black butterfly tie. He was the emissary in England of the colossal American daily called the Western Sun - also humorously described as the "Rising Sunset". This was in allusion to a great journalistic declaration (attributed to Mr Kidd himself).

Those, however, who mock American journalism forget a certain paradox which partly redeems it. For while the journalism of the States permits a vulgarity long past anything English, it also shows a real excitement about the most earnest mental problems, of which English papers are innocent, or rather incapable. The Sun was full of the most solemn matters treated in the most farcical way. William James figured there as well as "Weary Willie".

Thus, when a very unobtrusive Oxford man named John Boulnois wrote in a very unreadable review called the Natural Philosophy Quarterly a series of articles on alleged weak points in Darwinian evolution, it fluttered no corner of the English papers; though Boulnois's theory (which was that of a comparatively stationary universe visited occasionally by convulsions of change) had some rather faddy fashionableness at Oxford, and got so far as to be named "Catastrophism". But many American papers seized on the challenge as a great event; and the Sun threw the shadow of Mr Boulnois quite gigantically across its pages. By the paradox already noted, articles of valuable intelligence and enthusiasm were presented with headlines apparently written by an illiterate maniac, headlines such as "Darwin Chews Dirt; Critic Boulnois says He Jumps the Shocks" - or "Keep Catastrophic, says Thinker Boulnois." And Mr Calhoun Kidd, of the Western Sun, was bidden to take his butterfly tie and lugubrious visage down to the little house outside Oxford where Thinker Boulnois lived in happy ignorance of such a title.

(From G.K. Chesterton: "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois", a detective short story featuring the well-known detective Father Brown, included in "G.B.D.'s FAMOUS CRIME STORIES", Good Books Distributors Publishers, Kolkata-16; 189 pages; Rs. 50.00)

Kishalay Sinha [G]

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চয়তান Nazi বিলাকে দৰমহা দি দুখীয়া অশিক্ষিত বেকাৰ বুৰ্বক ডেকাবোৰক বেলেগ দেশৰ দুখীয়া অশিক্ষিত বেকাৰ বুৰ্বক ডেকা বোৰৰ লগত "যুদ্ধ" কৰি মাৰিব আৰু মৰিব দিয়ে ৷ ডেকাবোৰৰ লোভী  family বিলাকেও ডেকাবোৰ মৰিলেও মৰক বুলি join কৰিব দিয়ে মাহে মাহে টকা পাব বুলি ৷ মৰিলে কিয় কান্দে? (মৰাৰ পিছত দুখীয়া অসহায় ছোৱালী আৰু বিধবাবিলাকক চয়তান Nazi বোৰে বে. বনাই দিয়ে ৷)

উচটনি দিয়া চয়তান TV journalists বোৰ - যেনে দেৱজিত - চব চয়তান Nazis - ইহঁতক গুলীয়াই মাৰিব লাগে ৷

কিশলয় সিনহা [G]