The Man Who Was Thursday/Funny

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Gregory's attempts at disguising his anarchy are...well, let's just say they bring Invader Zim to mind more than anything else.

"...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..."

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