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160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1929
What you want is an unpractical man. That is what people always want in the last resort and the worst conditions. What can practical men do here? Waste their practical time in running after the poor fellow and cutting him down from one pub sign after another? Waste their practical lives watching him day and night, to see he doesn't get hold of a rope or a razor? Do you call that practical? You can only forbid him to die. Can you persuade him to live? Believe me, that is where we come in. A man must have his head in the clouds and his wits wool-gathering in fairyland, before he can do anything so practical as that.The stories in which the adventures of Gabriel Gale are presented are all wildly far-fetches, yet amusing. What I continue to love about Chesterton is the way he can always make me smile.