Friday, December 26, 2014
Holidays
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936), Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1917), pp. 31-32:
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To anyone who knows any history it is wholly needless to say that holidays have been destroyed. As Mr. Belloc, who knows much more history than you or I, recently pointed out in the "Pall Mall Magazine," Shakespeare's title of "Twelfth Night: or What You Will" simply meant that a winter carnival for everybody went on wildly till the twelfth night after Christmas. Those of my readers who work for modern offices or factories might ask their employers for twelve days' holidays after Christmas. And they might let me know the reply.
