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by G. K. Chesterton
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, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, musthave had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America.There is something entirely Gargantuan in the idea of economising space by piling houses on top of each other,front doors and all. And in the chaos and complexity of thoseperpendicular streets anything may dwell or happen, and itis in one of them, I believe, that the inquirer may find theoffices of the Club of Queer Trades. It may be thought at thefirst glance that the name would attract and startle the passer-by, but nothing attracts or startles in these dim immensehives. The passer-by is only looking for his own melancholy destination, the Montenegro Shipping Agency or the Lon-don office of the Rutland Sentinel, and passes through thetwilight passages as one passes through the twilight corri-dors of a dream. If the Thugs set up a Strangers’ Assassina-tion Company in one of the great buildings in Norfolk Street,and sent in a mild man in spectacles to answer inquiries, noinquiries would be made. And the Club of Queer Tradesreigns in a great edifice hidden like a fossil in a mighty cliff of fossils.The nature of this society, such as we afterwards discov-ered it to be, is soon and simply told. It is an eccentric andBohemian Club, of which the absolute condition of mem-bership lies in this, that the candidate must have inventedthe method by which he earns his living. It must be an en-tirely new trade. The exact definition of this requirement isgiven in the two principal rules. First, it must not be a mere
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