Sorry about the brief study but my time this week is incredibly limited. Besides, I couldn't think of much else about the chapter.
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This chapter begins with Syme meeting the first of the Anarchists – the Secretary who has a strange smile and who holds the position of Monday. He leads Syme to Leicester square and informs Syme on the way that they will be taking their meeting in a very public place. When they reach the square Syme sees the balcony on which the meeting is taking place – he is just in time for breakfast.
But he also sees Sunday, the President of the Anarchist Council. He’s a gigantic man who is literally “too big to be seen” at first. Syme realizes immediately that this is the President whom everyone in the party fears.
He also meets each member of the Council of Days. There’s Gogol, called Tuesday. There’s Wednesday, who’s the Marquis de St. Eustache. Friday is Professor de Worms, the nihilist who looks like a walking corpse, and Saturday, the frightful Doctor Bull. These are the men who promised to destroy the world, but that’s the opening of the next chapter… ;)
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I don’t really have many thoughts on this chapter, strangely. :) But it certainly is the chapter where the story really begins. Up to now the tale had been slightly eccentric, but now begins the 2nd phase of the story where things begin to get interesting; or rather just plain weird, mostly because of Sunday and the Paradoxical descriptions Chesterton uses for him. I wonder if Chesterton is maybe suggesting that the nature of God is more paradox than plain facts.
Also it is quite possible that each of the characters in the story represents something about modern the modern world? (we all know who Sunday is) Is the Secretary the Anarchist an embodiment of Pessimism? Is the Marquis some kind of monarchial autocracy that still weigh down its power? The Professor de Worms is most likely just plain nihilism. I can't think of others, and it may be just perhaps that they don't represent anything consider the truth behind them.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to your suggestions. :)