The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton, 1908
A poet-detective infiltrates a council of anarchists, each named for a day of the week, and the chase turns into a comic, vertiginous argument about whether the universe is friendly or hostile.
G. K. Chesterton
1874–1936
Chesterton dedicated the novel to Edmund Clerihew Bentley, his school friend from St Paul's, who later invented the clerihew, a four-line comic verse form named after his middle name.
Feels like wonder, identity and humor.
Goodness looks like an accident and evil looks like a joke.
When I see the horrible back, I am sure the noble face is but a mask. When I see the face but for an instant, I know the back is only a jest. Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained. Books by G. K. Chesterton
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