Favourite Passage: "The Man Who Was Thursday" by G K Chesterton

A description of the lead character, Gabriel Syme's family:

"He came from a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing esle. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike. The more his mother preached a more than Puritan abstinence the more did his father expand into a more than pagan latitude; and by the time the former had come to enforcing vegetarianism, the latter had pretty well reached the point of defending cannibalism.