“ Have you ever considered what it must be like to be a man who doesn’t exist? ”
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922). copy citation
| Author | G. K. Chesterton |
|---|---|
| Source | The Man Who Knew Too Much |
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| Date | 1922 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1720/1720-h/1720-h.htm |
Context
“It’s pretty much the same with the comic clothes of the parvenu. Jenkins dresses like a character in Punch. But that’s because he is a character in Punch. I mean he’s a fictitious character. He’s a fabulous animal. He doesn’t exist.
“Have you ever considered what it must be like to be a man who doesn’t exist? I mean to be a man with a fictitious character that he has to keep up at the expense not merely of personal talents: To be a new kind of hypocrite hiding a talent in a new kind of napkin. This man has chosen his hypocrisy very ingeniously;”
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