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The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton
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In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view. After some time, the frustrated Gregory finds Syme and leads him to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove that he is a true anarchist. Instead of the anarchist Gregory getting elected, the officer Syme uses his wits and is elected as the local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The Council consisting of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday.
Recommended for fans of James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Janet Evanovich and David Baldacci.
In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view. After some time, the frustrated Gregory finds Syme and leads him to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove that he is a true anarchist. Instead of the anarchist Gregory getting elected, the officer Syme uses his wits and is elected as the local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The Council consisting of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday.
Recommended for fans of James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Janet Evanovich and David Baldacci.
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- Mr Syme?
- Yes sir.
- You wished to make your report in person.
- Yes sir.
- Not in writing. This is most irregular.
- Yes sir. I had expected that I would be talking to--
- The person to whom you are referring no longer works for our organisation.
- Yes sir. May I ask--
- No, you may not.
- Yes sir.
- Wel
They say that LSD was first synthesisterised in 1938, so it couldn't be that. But opium was imbibed in British society as we know from Thomas de Quincy up to Sherlock Holmes, so I'm going with opium.
This strange novel is a phantasmagoria which begins as a surrealistic spoof of Boy's-Own detective ad
"Η Βίβλος διδάσκει να αγαπάμε τον πλησίον μας. Να αγαπάμε και τον εχθρό μας. Πιθανότατα επειδή πρόκειται για τα ίδια άτομα".
G. K. Chesterton.
"Ο άνθρωπος που τον έλεγαν Πέμπτη",είναι μια παραβολή αποδόμησης της πραγματικότητας.
Μια ιστορία μυθοπλασίας με καυστική ειρωνεία,
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I lost my backpack thanks to this book.
It was years and years ago, probably my first winter in Japan, and I'd picked up this book at Maruzen. I had heard about Chesterton, mainly from the dedication page of Pratchett and Gamian's Good Omens ("The authors would like to join the demon Crowley in dedic
"¡El cerebro del hombre es una bomba! ¡Yo siento que mi cerebro es una bomba a toda hora del día y de la noche! ¡Quiere estallar! ¡El cerebro del hombre necesita estallar, aún cuando destruya el universo!"
Nueva relectura en lo que va del año. Había leído esta novela hace cuatro años atrás y tenía un
”A man’s brain is a bomb,” he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. “My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man’s brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe.”
Gabriel Syme attends a dinner party of hi
Possibly the shortest way to describe Chesterton’s famous novel is to say that it is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for grownups. The story of Gabriel Syme is just as bizarre as that of little Alice. It also echoes in many ways with the oppressing nightmares of Kafka and Dostoyevsky.
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