His last words, "can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?", is the question Jesus asks St. The dream ends when Sunday is asked if he has ever suffered. Syme refutes the accusation immediately, because of the terrors inflicted by Sunday on the rest of the council. His accusation is that they, as rulers, have never suffered like Gregory and their other subjects and so their power is illegitimate. Gregory, the only real anarchist, seems to challenge the false council. Sunday is unable to give an answer to the question of why he caused so much trouble and pain for the detectives. In a surreal conclusion, Sunday is unmasked as only seeming to be an anarchist in fact, he is a proponent of state power like the detectives. They soon find out they were fighting each other and not real anarchists such was the mastermind plan of their president, Sunday. In his efforts to thwart the council, Syme eventually discovers that five of the other six members are also undercover detectives each was employed just as mysteriously and assigned to defeat the Council. He is sent immediately as the chapter's delegate to the central council. Syme makes a rousing anarchist speech in which he denounces everything that Gregory has said and wins the vote. In order to make Syme think that the anarchists are harmless after all, Gregory speaks very unconvincingly to the local chapter, so that they feel that he is not zealous enough for the job. Gregory expects to win the election but just before, Syme reveals to Gregory after an oath of secrecy that he is a secret policeman. The central council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a cover the position of Thursday is about to be elected by Gregory's local chapter. He suggests Gregory is not really serious about anarchism, which so irritates Gregory that he takes Syme to an underground anarchist meeting place, under oath not to disclose its existence to anyone, revealing his public endorsement of anarchy is a ruse to make him seem harmless, when in fact he is an influential member of the local chapter of the European anarchist council. 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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