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> In general outline, and to some extent in atmosphere, it rather resembles G. K. Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday.”: “In his efforts to thwart the counc
by Stierlitz 6y ago
> In general outline, and to some extent in atmosphere, it rather resembles G. K. Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday.”:
“In his efforts to thwart the council, Syme eventually discovers that five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; each was employed just as mysteriously and assigned to defeat the Council. They soon find out they were fighting each other and not real anarchists; such was the mastermind plan of their president”
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1695/1695-h/1695-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1695/1695-h/1695-h.htm
Sounds like what the war-on-terror eventually ended-up like in Northern Ireland. Eventually virtually every other terrorist of note ended up working for the security forces.
- lifeisstillgood 6y agoI would be interested in any background you have on this. (I know Steaknife was the worst example of this, but am interested how far it went - and as a fairly obvious corollary - what would happen if instead of "turning" terrorists they were just arrested as normal criminals mostly are. If there are lessons on the war on drugs for example.
- Stierlitz 6y agoNothing that's not already out in the media. Colin Wallace (and others) wrote about this, so they framed him for manslaughter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wallace#Imprisonment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wallace#Imprisonment
- fennecfoxen 6y agoThis is not actually the part of _Thursday_ that Orwell meant by his statement. He is referring to the overall structure in which paranoia and espionage give way to an allegorical / supernatural end (which occurs after everyone heads off to chase after Sunday himself).