The Man Who Was Thursday
Author: G.K. Chesterton
“A man’s brain is a bomb,” he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. “My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man’s brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe”‘,,In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, S….Read More
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