The Man Who Was Thursday: A NightmareFree EPUB and PDF
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Why read it
For the reader who wants a dizzying adventure with real depth, and who does not mind being baffled before the book explains itself. It is best read without knowing the ending. Chesterton turns the vertigo of modern doubt into an invitation to gratitude and courage.
Summary
Gabriel Syme, poet and policeman, infiltrates the secret council of the anarchists of Europe, whose seven members are named after the days of the week. What begins as a spy novel becomes an ever stranger chase, until the president, Sunday, and the meaning of the whole tangle come to light. It is a nightmare that turns out to be a parable about order, evil and suffering.
Quotes
Chaos is dull; because in chaos the train might indeed go anywhere, to Baker Street or to Bagdad. But man is a magician, and his whole magic is in this, that he does say Victoria, and lo! it is Victoria.
Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
His respectability was spontaneous and sudden, a rebellion against rebellion.
“Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?”
Moral rating
6 of 6: No drawbacks. See on delibris.org
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