'Only the English are proud of having created nonsense. The English are a profoundly illogical race, quite unlike the French . . . The logical French stopped fighting the Nazis in 1940; the stupid English sustained the struggle.'
'There is something in the English language which abets the nonsensical urge. The language is rich, confused, leafy, and is satisfying as pure music.'
Anthony Burgess,
'Nonsense'
Chesterton was right in his "Defense of Nonsense." Nonsense is integral to imagination. Those who kill the whimsical and nonsensical destroy all imagination.