Gargoyles

I really have a notion of why I have collected all the nonsensical things there are here. I have not the patience nor perhaps the constructive intelligence to state the connecting link between all these chaotic posts. But it could be stated. This row of shapeless and ungainly monsters which I now set before the reader does not consist of separate idols cut out capriciously in lonely valleys or various islands. These monsters are meant for the gargoyles of a definite cathedral. I have to carve the gargoyles, because I can carve nothing else; I leave to others the angels and the arches and the spires. But I am very sure of the style of the architecture, and of the consecration of the church.

—G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions.