
Today
Read The Ethics of Elfland from Chesterton's Orthodoxy.
Chesterton's argument is that a child asks for the same thing a hundred times out of sheer surplus of life, and that the sun comes up every morning for the same reason — not because a clock is running down, but because someone with more delight than we have says do it again. Monotony as vitality. It reverses the whole complaint of January.