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From: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Date: 20080706
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Byline: by Lorne Jackson

THERE was a time, in the early 20th Century, when GK Chesterton was a very famous author.

So prominent was his prole, in fact, that another popular writer of the time - also known by two initials and a surname - turned him into a simile.

It was PG Wodehouse who wrote that a particular noise had the distinctive oral qualities of "Mr GK Chesterton falling onto a sheet of tin."

When this was written, everybody knew exactly what Wodehouse meant.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a monolith of a man.

Standing six foot four inches tall, he ...

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