Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London Gabriel Syme a poet is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory an anarchist poet is the only poet in Saffron Park until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme who takes the opposite view. After some time the frustrated Gregory finds Syme and leads him to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove that he is a true anarchist. In...