To Gregory’s horror, Syme manages to get himself elected to the post just after confiding that he is in fact a detective tasked with battling the forces of anarchy. In response, after swearing him to secrecy, Gregory takes Syme to a secret meeting of anarchists who are about to elect a representative to the Supreme Anarchist Council. One evening Syme provokes the anarchist poet, Lucian Gregory, by refusing to believe that he actually believe in the anarchy he professes. Syme is a poet of sanity and order, expounding on the mystical wonder of railroad time tables and the glorious adventure of being respectable. The novel centers around Gabriel Syme, a gentleman poet of the early years of the 20 th century. To spoil the secrets of the novel is beyond my powers, and perhaps few men outside of the author himself (if even he) could have done so. Those who have not read it have better do so now, for I will be spoiling the course of the story. In its pages are at least a hint of the kind of attitudes that will be needed to face the monstrous leviathan that has since consumed the world in a manner as complete as Sunday’s apparent triumph.įor those who have read it, I will refresh your memories of the chief course of events. Or rather, it is the vision of one who saw our era coming and intellectually engaged with it before it had arrived. Re-reading Chesterton’s inscrutable classic The Man Who Was Thursday, I realized that this book is an image of our era.
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