Man Who Was Thursday

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• Publisher: Fractal Press
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781910660058
• Edition: 0

Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme demurs, insisting the essence of poetry is not revolution, but rather law. He antagonizes Gregory by asserting the most poetical of human creations is the timetable for the London Underground.

Table of contents

• I.—THE TWO POETS OF SAFFRON PARK
• II.—THE SECRET OF GABRIEL SYME
• III.—THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
• IV.—THE TALE OF A DETECTIVE
• V.—THE FEAST OF FEAR
• VI.—THE EXPOSURE
• VII.—THE UNACCOUNTABLE CONDUCT OF PROFESSOR DE WORMS
• VIII.—THE PROFESSOR EXPLAINS
• IX.—THE MAN IN SPECTACLES
• X.—THE DUEL
• XI.—THE CRIMINALS CHASE THE POLICE
• XII.—THE EARTH IN ANARCHY
• XIII.—THE PURSUIT OF THE PRESIDENT
• XIV.—THE SIX PHILOSOPHERS
• XV.—THE ACCUSER