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[[File:TheManWhoWasThursday.jpg|frame|"Each man of you finds Sunday quite different, yet each man of you can only find one thing to compare him to -- the universe itself."]]
 
{{quote| "''First of all, what is it really all about? What is it you object to? You want to abolish Government?''"<br />
 
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"''To abolish God!" said Gregory, opening the eyes of [[Knight Templar|a fanatic]]. "We do not only want to upset a few despotisms and police regulations; that sort of anarchism does exist, but it is a mere branch of the Nonconformists. We dig deeper and we blow you higher. We wish to [[Above Good and Evil|deny all those arbitrary distinctions of vice and virtue, honour and treachery]], upon which mere rebels base themselves. The silly sentimentalists of [[the French Revolution]] talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs. We have abolished Right and Wrong.''"<br />
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* [[Bomb Throwing Anarchist]]: Deconstructed
* [[Bored with Insanity]]: Syme embraced Order and rejected radicalism because his whole family was made up of radicals for various causes and ideologies.
{{quote| Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left -- sanity.}}
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Averted, and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the process.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Tuesday is threatened with this.
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* [[Duel to the Death]]: Syme [[Hit Me Dammit|intentionally provokes one with the Marquis de St. Eustache]] to prevent him from getting to Paris to carry out an assassination. (It's not actually to the death, though.)
* [[Evil Redhead]]: {{spoiler|Gregory}}. But ''not'' {{spoiler|[[Heroes Want Redheads|his equally redheaded sister, Rosamond]]}}.
{{quote| {{spoiler|"My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world ... "}}}}
* {{spoiler|[[Flock of Wolves]]}}: Used to the point of hilarity, as well as one the novel's major twists.
* [[Genteel Interbellum Setting]]
* [[God]]: {{spoiler|No, Sunday is not He}}, though it was a popular interpretation. Chesterton [[Jossed]] this view by [[Word of God]] in the aforementioned [[Fan Dumb]] article.
** Further [[Word of God]] on the subject, from two different articles:
{{quote| {{spoiler|"...I think you can take him to stand for Nature as distinguished from God. Huge, boisterous, full of vitality, dancing with a hundred legs, bright with the glare of the sun, and at first sight, somewhat regardless of us and our desires."}}<br />
{{spoiler|"But you will note that I hold that when the mask of Nature is lifted you find God behind."}} }}
* [[Happy Ending]]: Or at least, it appears to be.
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* [[Wall of Weapons]]: The corridor leading to the assembly room in the underground anarchist HQ at the beginning of the book is covered with various pistols, rifles, and other weapons. The assembly room proper is lined with bombs.
* [[War On Straw]]: Gregory's explanation of his own failed attempts to go undercover:
{{quote| "The history of the thing might amuse you," he said. "When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all kinds of respectable disguises. I dressed up as a bishop. I read up all about bishops in our anarchist pamphlets, in ''Superstition the Vampire'' and ''Priests of Prey''. I certainly understood from them that bishops are strange and terrible old men keeping a cruel secret from mankind. I was misinformed. When on my first appearing in episcopal gaiters in a drawing-room I cried out in a voice of thunder, 'Down! down! presumptuous human reason!' they found out in some way that I was not a bishop at all. I was nabbed at once. Then I made up as a millionaire; but I defended Capital with so much intelligence that a fool could see that I was quite poor. Then I tried being a major. Now I am a humanitarian myself, but I have, I hope, enough intellectual breadth to understand the position of those who, like Nietzsche, admire violence -- the proud, mad war of Nature and all that, you know. I threw myself into the major. I drew my sword and waved it constantly. I called out 'Blood!' abstractedly, like a man calling for wine. I often said, 'Let the weak perish; it is the Law.' Well, well, it seems majors don't do this. I was nabbed again."}}
* [[Warrior Poet]]: Syme is a poet, and, judging by his performance in his duel with the Marquis, something of a warrior.
* [[We Need a Distraction]]: See [[Duel to the Death]].
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