The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. ChestertonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
In this short, learned yet witty and entertaining story, Chesterton shows us the way of the happy warrior. He has the courage to stand and fight and die in the face of evil. But he also has the faith and optimism not to believe the world will be lost. Others may believe that the world is overrun, but not the man who was Thursday.
The story is about the transition from undercover darkness to the open sunlight. From a concern for a petty, paltry and harmless anarchist, to a focus on the Face larger than life that envelopes the world in His grace. In a word: things aren’t as bad as they look, or as we may dream them to be.
This is a book to savor. Don’t read just for the plot. Chesterton knew how to craft words. Read slowly enough to drink in all his hints, allusions, biblical references and so on.
The dreadful dream turns delightful in the end.
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