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LibriVox recording of "The Appetite of Tyranny" by G. K.
Chesterton, read by Ray Clare.
Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most
bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there
is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is
quite true that I may illuminate many other people's
weaknesses as well as my own. It may be that the master of
the house was burned because he was drunk; it may be that
the mistress of the house was burned because she was stingy,
and perished arguing about the expense of the fire-escape.
It is, nevertheless, broadly true that they both were burned
because I set fire to their house. That is the story of the
thing. The mere facts of the story about the present
European conflagration are quite as easy to tell." (Summary
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
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Artist/Composer: G. K. Chesterton
Date: 2008-08-10
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
01 - The Facts of the Case 13:56 02 - The War on the Word 17:02 03 - The Refusal of Reciprocity 19:23 04 - The Appetite of Tyranny 17:03 05 - The Escape of Folly 13:49 06 - Letters to an Old Garibaldian - Letter 1 16:11 07 - Letters to an Old Garabaldian - Letter 2 16:41 08 - Letters to an Old Garabaldian - Letter 3 13:18