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The author says G.K. Chesterton's goal in "The Man Who Was Thursday: The Dialogic Sensibility," is to marshal the cacophony of authorial voices that affected Chesterton's youth into an internal forum within which to argue his way out of the ontological crisis he experienced at the end of the century. He says to this end, the novel assimilates the influences of Lewis Carroll, Andrew Lang, Oscar Wilde and Rudyard Kipling, and mediates these voices through a series of intertextual parodic games.