Editing Thursday (section)

===Literature===
*Gabriel Syme, the main character, was given the title of Thursday in [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s novel ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' (1908).
*The titular day in ''[[Sweet Thursday]]'' (1954) (the sequel to [[John Steinbeck]]'s novel ''[[Cannery Row (novel)|Cannery Row]]'' (1945)), the author explains, is the day after Lousy Wednesday and the day before Waiting Friday.
*In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' by [[Douglas Adams]], the character [[Arthur Dent]] says: "This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays". A few minutes later the planet [[Earth]] is destroyed. In another Douglas Adams book, ''[[The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul]]'' (1988), one of the characters says to the character Thor, after whom the day was named: "I'm not used to spending the evening with someone who's got a whole day named after them".
*In the [[cross media]] work ''[[Thursday's Fictions]]'' by [[Richard James Allen]] and [[Karen Pearlman]], Thursday is the title character, a woman who tries to cheat the cycle of [[reincarnation]] to get a form of [[immortality|eternal life]].  ''Thursday's Fictions'' has been a stage production, a book, a film and an 3D online immersive world in [[Second Life]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.realtimearts.net/article/80/8662 |title=Magazine – issue 80 – dance film: spiritual odyssey |publisher=RealTime Arts |access-date=6 August 2012}}</ref>
*[[Thursday Next]] is the central character in a series of novels by [[Jasper Fforde]].
*In [[Garth Nix]]'s popular [[The Keys to the Kingdom]] series, Thursday is an antagonist, a violent general who is a personification of the actual day and the [[Seven Deadly Sins|Sin of Wrath]].
*According to [[Nostradamus]]' prediction (Century 1, Quatrain 50), a powerful (but otherwise unidentified) leader who will threaten "the East" will be born of three [[water signs]] and takes Thursday as his feast day.<ref>{{cite web |author=Nostradamus |url=http://www.nostradamusquatrains.com/Century1/Quatrain50.htm |title=Century 1 – Quatrain 50 |publisher=Nostradamus Quatrains |access-date=6 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827075216/http://www.nostradamusquatrains.com/Century1/Quatrain50.htm |archive-date=27 August 2012 }}</ref>