Hmm, what can I find that you don't know, or I haven't already tried to rec you?! So this will be a strange pic'n'mix 'treat'! ;-)
Since it is for Hallowe'en, what could be better than a spooky gen Jonathan Creek fic? One Foot in the Grave
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This another Chesterton poem that I like (although the Great Minimum is still my favourite. Aside from maybe his Christmas ones):
The Pessimist
You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go-- I know your hoary question, the riddle that all men know. You have weighed the stars in a balance, and grasped the skies in a span: Take, if you must have answer, the word of a common man.
Deep in my life lies buried one love unhealed, unshriven, One hunger still shall haunt me--yea, in the streets of heaven; This is the burden, babbler, this is the curse shall cling, This is the thing I bring you; this is the pleasant thing.
'Gainst you and all your sages, no joy of mine shall strive, This one dead self shall shatter the men you call alive. My grief I send to smite you, no pleasure, no belief, Lord of the battered grievance, what do you know of grief?
I only know the praises to heaven that one man gave, That he came on earth for an instant, to stand beside a grave, The peace of a field of battle, where flowers are born of blood. I only know one evil that makes the whole world good.
Beneath this single sorrow the globe of moon and sphere Turns to a single jewel, so bright and brittle and dear That I dread lest God should drop it, to be dashed into stars below.
You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go.
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Also, sweet little multi-fandom vid that includes Martha and Sarah. (I like it, even though I have no clue about the other fandoms - maybe you will know some of them!)
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Since it is for Hallowe'en, what could be better than a spooky gen Jonathan Creek fic? One Foot in the Grave
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This another Chesterton poem that I like (although the Great Minimum is still my favourite. Aside from maybe his Christmas ones):
The Pessimist
You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go--
I know your hoary question, the riddle that all men know.
You have weighed the stars in a balance, and grasped the skies in a span:
Take, if you must have answer, the word of a common man.
Deep in my life lies buried one love unhealed, unshriven,
One hunger still shall haunt me--yea, in the streets of heaven;
This is the burden, babbler, this is the curse shall cling,
This is the thing I bring you; this is the pleasant thing.
'Gainst you and all your sages, no joy of mine shall strive,
This one dead self shall shatter the men you call alive.
My grief I send to smite you, no pleasure, no belief,
Lord of the battered grievance, what do you know of grief?
I only know the praises to heaven that one man gave,
That he came on earth for an instant, to stand beside a grave,
The peace of a field of battle, where flowers are born of blood.
I only know one evil that makes the whole world good.
Beneath this single sorrow the globe of moon and sphere
Turns to a single jewel, so bright and brittle and dear
That I dread lest God should drop it, to be dashed into stars below.
You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go.
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Also, sweet little multi-fandom vid that includes Martha and Sarah. (I like it, even though I have no clue about the other fandoms - maybe you will know some of them!)
:-)