He’s expecting the local branch to elect him to the Central Anarchist Council at its next meeting-which is in just a few minutes. Gregory explains that his group wants to destroy all religion, government, and morality. Gregory takes Syme to a seedy pub, where their table shoots down through a secret passageway into an underground anarchist bunker full of bombs and weapons. Syme accuses Gregory of not being serious about anarchism, and in response, Gregory offers Syme “a very entertaining evening”-but only if he promises not to tell the police. When Gabriel Syme attends one of Gregory’s parties, they debate whether poetry is a form of order or chaos. The novel begins in a garden in the quaint London suburb of Saffron Park, where the firebrand anarchist poet Lucian Gregory passionately lectures his friends about the evils of organized society and the beauty of destruction. But when Syme learns that the other anarchist leaders are not who they seem to be, he starts questioning what his mission really meant in the first place-and who has been pulling the strings. Chesterton’s otherworldly spy novel The Man Who Was Thursday, the poet, philosopher, and police detective Gabriel Syme infiltrates a vast anarchist conspiracy to save the world from its sinister plots.
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