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Ian Miller
8 years ago

Did you find The Man Who Was Thursday a disappointment as well?

jillybean
jillybean
8 years ago
Reply to  Ian Miller

I did, and I agree that his fiction can be a bit plodding at times. But I will forgive him anything for Father Brown’s words about the thief who gets away: ” I caught him with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.”

Ian Miller
8 years ago
Reply to  jillybean

Sad day! The Man Who Was Thursday is a book that literally changed the way I thought about the world, and I get chills (and sometimes even weep) every time I get to the end. :)

Father Brown is sometimes sublime, as the passage you selected, and sometimes kinda horrifying (at least to a good Calvinist). But even at his most frustrating, he’s better than the loathesome abomination of an adapation the BBC is pumping out right now.