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The Man Who Was Thursday
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a metaphysical thriller by G. K. Chesterton, and stands alongside his Father Brown stories as his most famous work.The story concerns special detective Gabriel Syme, a member of a secret police force dedicated to fighting the forces of Anarchy, who encounters a self-professed anarchist poet by the name of Lucian Gregory. After a spirited debate on the subject of Order Versus Chaos, Gregory invites Syme to a secret meeting of the anarchist force to which he belongs. There, Syme manages to get himself elected as the new Thursday on the anarchists' supreme council, the Council of Days, where each member is named for a different day of the week, in order to penetrate the anarchist organization and bring it down. The council is led by the terrifyingly cheerful and enigmatic figure of Sunday, and what follows is Syme's attempt to stay sane in the face of what seems to be true evil, and to answer the maddening question: "Who is Sunday?"The book deals with the conflict of Order and Chaos, and serves to deconstruct the concept of the Bomb Throwing Anarchist (which was popular at the time) in favour of dealing with philosophical anarchism, that Chesterton felt to be actual nihilism that seeks to abolish not just government and authority, but the very concepts of good, evil, and God. It contains elements of the spy novel, Mystery Fiction, satire, Magical Realism, humour, and horror, and has also had a rather eclectic variety of fans in the literary world, including Michael Collins, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka.An adaptation starring François Arnaud, Ana Ularu, and Jordi Molia was released in 2016 to critical acclaim.You can read it online here. | |
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Beneath Notice | |
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Beneath Notice: Subverted; Sunday's method of keeping the anarchists away from suspicion is for them to claim explicitly to be Bomb-Throwing Anarchists, while appearing to be (eccentric) respectable gentlemen. | |
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Dress-Coded for Your Convenience | |
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Dress-Coded for Your Convenience: At the climax of the story, each Council member is dressed in clothes featuring a motif based on what was created on his respective day in Genesis: Monday has a single white stripe for the light created on the first day; Tuesday, blue parted robes; Wednesday, a tree/green motif; Thursday, the sun and moon; Friday, fish and birds, and Saturday, beasts and a man. In addition, Sunday is in all white robes, and Gregory in all black. Sunday encourages the members of his organization to dress the part of the stereotypical morning-coated, top hat-wearing gentleman, an aversion of the stereotypical caricature of the Bomb Throwing Anarchist. However: This is subverted by Tuesday, who normally does dress as the caricature and is uncomfortable in gentleman's clothes, and doubly subverted when that costume is revealed to be itself an assumed role. More profoundly, it is subverted by the explicit statement that the real anarchists are the rich aristocrats, the sort of men who do wear top hats and evening dress. And again when it's revealed that nobody was actually an anarchist, but were only trying to nab the people who they thought were anarchists - who also weren't anarchists. | |
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Crazy Sane | |
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Crazy Sane: Syme. He self-describes as a "rebel against rebellion," being as frenetic and feverish about law and order as the anarchists are about revolution. In fact, he seems downright crazed when he delivers his Motive Rant to Gregory. | |
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Mutual Masquerade | |
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Mutual Masquerade: The secret police force is so secret that none of its agents knows the identity of any of its other agents. | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness: Good characters look wholesome, evil characters look creepy in some way—and seeing what a character really looks like is enough to convince the other characters what side he's really on. But many characters are wearing some form of disguise. The beauty that marks their goodness is subsurface. | |
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Catapult Nightmare | |
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Catapult Nightmare: Averted, and lampshaded in the process. | |
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GenderLift | |
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Gender Lift: Dr. "Saturday" Bell, a male, was played by female Ana Ularu in the film adaptation. | |
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Costume Porn | |
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Costume Porn: The masquerade costumes in the last chapter — not done in excruciating detail, though. | |
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Hidden in Plain Sight | |
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Syme, who straight up tells Gregory he's a cop, but swears him to secrecy first. This turns out to be the case for the whole Council of Days, all of whom are secretly police, and none of whom realize this. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Tuesday is threatened with this. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: Why Gregory can't out Syme to the rest of the anarchist assembly and Syme won't go to the police with the whereabouts of the Council of Days, because each made the other swear he wouldn't. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise: Gregory's Epic Fail attempts at undercover agent work. | |
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Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu? | |
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Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Played with. The other council members, having rumbled each other, are invited to a fancy dinner party by Sunday, where he seems to intimate that he might be God, or at least God-like. | |
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Terrorists Without a Cause | |
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Terrorists Without a Cause: Discussed as the distinction between revolutionaries who throw bombs with specific political targets, and anarchists who throw bombs to kill indiscriminately. | |
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Motive Rant | |
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Motive Rant: Gregory gives one at the climax of the book; it also doubles as a Hannibal Lecture. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "I am the man in the dark room, who made you all policemen." | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Sunday has his moments. | |
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Alternate Character Interpretation: In-Universe example: Almost a whole chapter is dedicated to each Council member's different interpretation of Sunday. | |
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NietzscheWannabe | |
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Nietzsche Wannabe: Professor De Worms, a philosophical nihilist, or at least Wilks' impression of him. | |
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Sinister Shades | |
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Sinister Shades: Bull wears a pair of smoked spectacles that obscure his eyes to uncanny effect. Without them, his friendly eyes give him away as an agent of law and order, rather than anarchy. | |
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Bizarrchitecture | |
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Bizarrchitecture: Saffron Park (based on the real Bedford Park), as well as the homes of Monday and Sunday. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: Sunday was both the leader of the Council of Days and the "man in the dark room". Also, all the members of the Council of Days were undercover policemen like Syme. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Rosamond, whose name is derived from the Latin rosa mundi, or "Rose of the World," one of the many, many titles given to Jesus. Also, the titles for the members of the Council of Days. | |
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Mistaken for an Imposter | |
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Mistaken for an Imposter: How Wilks got into the Council and the role of Professor De Worms/Friday. | |
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The Noun Who Verbed | |
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The Noun Who Verbed: The title. | |
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Duel to the Death | |
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Duel to the Death: Syme intentionally provokes one with the Marquis de St. Eustache to prevent him from getting to Paris to carry out an assassination. (It's not actually to the death, though.) | |
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Belief Makes You Stupid | |
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Belief Makes You Stupid: Played with. The anarchist Gregory tries impersonating a bishop. “ “When on my first appearing in episcopal gaiters in a drawing-room I cried out in a voice of thunder, 'Down! down! presumptuous human reason!' they found out in some way that I was not a bishop at all.” | |
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The Only Believer | |
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The Only Believer: Only Gregory is an actual anarchist, all the other members are police spies. When Gregory learns this he is not happy. | |
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White Sheep | |
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White Sheep: Syme, from his own point of view. He comes from a family of political radicals, and seems to be the sole exception. Played with in that he's a fanatic of a different kind, in the opposite direction. | |
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The Infiltration | |
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The Infiltration: How the plot is framed, with Syme using an argument with Gregory as an opportunity to infiltrate an anarchist cell and subvert it from within. | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation: A webcomic, actually: Little Tales intersperses an adapted version between its usual Slice of Life strips. | |
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Wall of Weapons | |
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Wall of Weapons: The corridor leading to the assembly room in the underground anarchist HQ at the beginning of the book is covered with various pistols, rifles, and other weapons. The assembly room proper is lined with bombs. | |
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The War on Straw | |
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The War on Straw: Gregory's explanation of his own failed attempts to go undercover: | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: The whole thing takes a major turn for the surreal, right before the protagonist wakes up from his dream. Which he somehow had while walking, in the midst of a conversation. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: The paralyzed Professor De Worms is a less convincing cripple than the impostor Wilks. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Sunday gives one before revealing he is the man in the dark room. | |
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"Day of the Week" Name | |
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"Day of the Week" Name: Naturally. Though in a slight aversion, the weekday names are actually code names (with the possible exception of Sunday) for the seven leaders of an anarchist organization. In another aversion, they turn out to be based on the days of the Creation week, slightly adjusted. | |
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Victory by First Blood | |
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Victory by First Blood: Exaggerated when a duel that's meant as a distraction is stipulated to go to first serious injury to make sure the distraction lasts long enough. | |
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Masquerade Ball | |
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Masquerade Ball: See Dress-Coded for Your Convenience. | |
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Feigning Intelligence | |
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Feigning Intelligence: An actor successfully impersonates a professor of philosophy by talking nonsense, which everyone assumes to be abstruse erudite knowledge since they can't understand it. | |
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Flock of Wolves | |
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Flock of Wolves: Used to the point of hilarity, as well as one the novel's major twists. | |
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Evil Virtues | |
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Evil Virtues: Discussed as the difference between an ordinary criminal and a Bomb Throwing Anarchist. | |
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Bored with Insanity: Syme embraced Order and rejected radicalism because his whole family was made up of radicals for various causes and ideologies. | |
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Anarchy Is Chaos | |
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Anarchy Is Chaos: The anarchists themselves take this position, as exemplified in the page quote. It's pointed out that there is a distinction between a revolutionary who throws a bomb to kill a king, and an anarchist who throws a bomb to kill anybody. Though, in fairness, it turns out that none of them are actually anarchists except Gregory. | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish" | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish": When entering the guarded anarchists' lair, you knock five times and then are asked who you are. The correct response is "Mr. Joseph Chamberlain", an influential British politician of the time. So, a celebrity, but an odd choice for the anarchists! | |
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Warrior Poet | |
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Warrior Poet: Syme is a poet, and, judging by his performance in his duel with the Marquis, something of a warrior. | |
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Mole in Charge | |
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Mole in Charge: Syme finds himself in this role at first, but it's much more complicated than he expects. | |
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Blue Blood | |
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Blue Blood: A recurring theme of the novel is that the working/lower class, even criminals, will never be swayed into philosophical anarchy, only the rich/upper class and intellectuals. It appears to be subverted in a big way later in the novel, but is actually played straight. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Syme and Wednesday/Rickert especially, though all the characters have their moments. | |
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Misery Poker | |
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Misery Poker: The story climaxes in a misery showdown between Syme and Gregory, which Syme wins. And right after that, Syme is countered into one between him and Sunday. Sunday wins. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: The story gets progressively Screwier as it goes on, and the ending takes the cake. | |
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Good Colors, Evil Colors | |
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Good Colors, Evil Colors: A character with red hair is almost always Good in Chesterton. Less frequently, blond hair is evil, especially if the blondness looks somehow artificial gilded. However, this novel subverts this with the honourable protagonist Syme (who is blond) and the antagonist(?) Gregory (maybe), who is red-haired. On the other hand, his sister, also red-haired, is unambiguously good — and probably a tribute to Chesterton's own wife, Frances. | |
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Evil Redhead | |
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Evil Redhead: Gregory. But not his equally redheaded sister, Rosamond. | |
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It Runs in the Family | |
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It Runs in the Family: Ideological radicalism runs in Syme's family, himself being the exception. | |
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Witch Hunt | |
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Witch Hunt: A form of it is seen later in the novel when the now-revealed-as-policemen Council members are pursued across the countryside by a mob of townspeople and men they thought were allies, led by the Secretary/Monday (who is also a policeman), who are under the mistaken impression that they are the anarchists. It gets cleared up by the end of the chapter, though. | |
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Large and in Charge | |
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Large and in Charge: Sunday, the head of the council, is describe as being intimidatingly large compared to the other council members. | |
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Sour Supporter | |
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Sour Supporter: The Professor thinks that the task before them is impossible, but still will work on it. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: As part of his beginning rant, Gregory attacks the train system, suggesting that the clerks look so dull because their lives are ordered. Symes then says: | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: Syme's method of getting himself elected to as the new Thursday and baiting the Marquis/Wednesday into their Duel to the Death. See also Beneath Notice. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Syme. He is very strange to say the least. His background plays into this, as he's a Blue Blood philosopher with a chip on his shoulder who joins the Anti-Anarchist Task Force mainly for a lack of anything better to do with himself. He seems to regard the whole thing as a philosophical exercise rather than a task of law enforcement, and behaves accordingly. | |
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Right Hand Versus Left Hand | |
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Right Hand Versus Left Hand: The council turns out to be exclusively made up of undercover police officers working against each other, and Sunday, who is apparently playing both sides against each other. | |
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Word-Salad Horror | |
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Word-Salad Horror: Sunday leaves behind inexplicable messages to the members of the council — messages that only make sense to the individuals for whom they are meant, thanks to the incredibly private information Sunday would have needed to know, and that frighten and enrage them for the same reason. | |
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We Need a Distraction | |
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We Need a Distraction: See Duel to the Death. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: We know from the start that Syme is one among others. | |
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Running Both Sides | |
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Running Both Sides: Sunday, as part of The Reveal. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: No, that's not a spoiler; it's right there in the subtitle. Chesterton actually wrote an article specifically criticizing the readers and critics who overlooked that in their interpretations of the work. To be fair, it's not totally clear given that the protagonist "wakes" to find himself walking and in the middle of a conversation. But again, it's right in the damn title. | |
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Mockstery Tale | |
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Mockstery Tale: There was really never any anarchist conspiracy, and the whole detective plot is just a framing device for a religious story. | |
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Happy Ending | |
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Happy Ending: Or at least, it appears to be. | |
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Heroes Want Redheads | |
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Heroes Want Redheads: Syme is surprised, "but with a curious pleasure," to have Gregory's red-headed sister Rosamond for company after his debate. | |
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