1 | * Gregory's attempts at [[PaperThinDisguise disguising]] his anarchy are... well, let's just say they bring ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZIM'' to mind more than anything else. |
2 | --> "...I dressed up as a bishop. I read up all about bishops in our anarchist pamphlets, in ''Superstition the Vampire'' and ''Priests of Prey''. I certainly understood from them that bishops are strange and terrible old men keeping a cruel secret from mankind. I was misinformed. When on my first appearing in episcopal gaiters in a drawing-room I cried out in a voice of thunder, 'Down! down! presumptuous human reason!' they found out in some way that I was not a bishop at all..." |
3 | * Syme getting elected as the new Thursday. There’s something wonderfully absurd about anarchists using Robert’s Rules of Order. |
4 | * Syme's elaborate (and not entirely sober) plan to provoke the Marquis into a duel, with a very precise sequence of events. He's quite startled when someone points out that it might not necessarily go the way he plans. |
5 | * When it seems the band of detectives are facing an entire population turned anarchist, [[spoiler: Dr. Bull]] quickly decides that he and not the word has gone mad and periodically peppers the ensuing crisis with assertions of his own insanity. |
6 | -->"I am in a padded cell." |
7 | * GKC's typical wisecracks are in top form throughout. One classic example: |
8 | -->"Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." |
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