He antagonises Gregory by asserting that the most poetical of human creations is the timetable for the London Underground. Syme demurs, insisting the essence of poetry is not revolution but law. Gregory argues that revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. In Victorian-era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti- anarchist police corps. The book has been described as a metaphysical thriller.Ĭhesterton prefixed the novel with a poem written to Edmund Clerihew Bentley, revisiting the pair's early history and the challenges presented to their early faith by the times. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a 1908 novel by G. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare at Wikisource
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