Chesterton IS Innocent Smith. Even after his death he's firing life and laughter into people who've forgotten what it looks like. He's a breath of fresh air in a post-post-modern world. The chapter where Smith threatens his university professor into admitting his preference for life over death will stick with me - it's such a perfect summary of how easily our intellectual rhetoric can deceive us, and how obvious the truth becomes when the lie is backed up against the wall.