#The Man Who was Thursday

[dedicatedfollower467]

Now that the holidays I have passed, I can post some of the creative projects I was working on that were secret presents for my family!

Today's project is a hand-bound copy of The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, made as a gift for my little brother. This is his favorite book, and he requested wide margins for note-taking and asked me to use the titling from the original 1908 printing. With that in mind, I also took other inspiration from that printing, such as the red full-fabric cover and the font choices.

The text of this book was taken from Project Gutenberg (ebook 1695) and typeset in Microsoft Word by me.

[thinkanamelater]

So I’ve recently read The Man Who Was Thursday and I have memes to offer

[woeworld]

More of you guys need to read the Man who was Thursday. Gabriel Syme would do numbers on here.

[bluebirdknight]

girl I started this book bc it's short, has a nightmare as a title and it will certainly make me think but I wasn't expecting to have planned out a whole series of illustrations, character design sheets and seven seasons of tv with barely 46 pages read

[theoriginalsuki]

Been thinking about The Man Who Was Thursday's theme that things are not what they seem. What if everything that happens to us is ordered toward an end that is good? Not because it is good that it happens but because it is transformed. It doesn't get the last word. Isn't that what the Latin o-happy-fault means? Even our sins aren't as great as we believe them to be. That was Judas' fatal mistake. We look at the world and see its suffering and ugliness, but maybe that's just the back of it. We don't see what is face-to-face, and if we did, we would know that all of this is contained, nothing is wasteful, and everything matters. We are cradled by the infinite; all manner of things shall be well.

[xserpx]

So last week I finished reading The Man Who Was Thursday for the first time & entirely coincidentally I also rewatched Good Omens, and now I've been reminded that Good Omens itself was dedicated to Chesterton "A man who knew what was going on." And the inspiration is very obvious and interesting!

[john-amend-all]

“I tell you,” went on Syme with passion, “that every time a train comes in I feel that it has broken past batteries of besiegers, and that man has won a battle against chaos.” -- G. K. Chesterton, 'The Man Who Was Thursday'

They obviously agree with that philosophy in Seoul, since the arrival of each metro train is heralded with a victorious fanfare.

[publicdomainbooksdevotee]

Just finished The Man Who Was Thursday.

[anonymous-witness777]

All we were, were flags that failed flies that flew to the lamp to burn, butterflies against the grinding wheel and cogs that refused to turn. Though Despair was named our mother, we were the ones who would not die. And hope, blind and audacious, raises her head to the sky.

[saltandironseasonedwriting]

Escaping the Nightmare: "Catch-22" vs "The Man Who Was Thursday"

An ordinary man discovers a terrible secret: he is living in a nightmare. Yossarian, the war pilot protagonist from Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22, finds himself in this predicament when he wanders through Rome late one night. From petty thefts to brutal violence, he witnesses a procession of crimes and suffering. The sight of people’s unabated misery plunges him into gloom. “What a lousy earth!…

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Dog Meshi.

[thinkanamelater]

The man who was Monday

Monday, from The Man Who Was Thursday

[martyred-underneath-a-microscope]

from 'The Man Who Was Thursday' by G.K. Chesterton

[novice-at-everything]

Finished reading (listening on audiobook) “The Man Who was Thursday” today.

Absolutely great book. Wish I’d read it sooner.

[maris-books-it]

The Man Who Was Thursday - by G. K. Chesterton

This. Book. Is. Wonderful!

I 100% did not think that I would like it anywhere near as much as I did, I only got it because Good Omens is dedicated to the author, and it kind of (especially at the beginning) had Good Omens book vibes. I think I’m gonna give it a 9.5/10.

Basically it tells the story of this cop who infiltrates this big anarchist group in town, but because of a deal he made he can’t tell the other cops what he learns. It leads to what can only be described as a romp around London and Paris running away from the anarchists and their leader, Mr. Sunday. It’s funny and interesting and doesn’t feel like a book written at the start of the twentieth century. The only reason it’s not a 10/10 for me is the ending felt a tiny bit out of left field, like the author remembered he wanted to add religion in the last three pages. But I still absolute adore it and would recommend this book!

[sircolinmorgan]

Sir, don't. Show them who you are. This is who I am. No, it never has been. We hold the line, if you cross it now then there's no way back.