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[[File:The Thing - Why I Am an Alien Shape-Changer.jpg|thumb|Earliest known edition of '''''The Thing: Why I am an Alien Shape Changer'''''.]]'''''The Thing: Why I am an Alien Shape Changer''''' is an autobiographical essay by G. K. Chesterton 1.1 about his efforts to reconcile his mission as an extraterrestrial shape changer with his deeply held Catholicism.

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File:Big Thing in Little China.jpg|link=Big Thing in Little China|'''''[[Big Thing in Little China]]''''' is a comedy horror thriller film starring Kurt Russell. 

File:Walking Heads.jpg|link=Walking Heads|'''[[Walking Heads]]''' were an arctic rock band formed by a parasitic alien monster from the bodies of David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, and Jerry Harrison. Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed nightmares of the '80s", the group helped to pioneer new horror music by integrating elements of isolation, freezing temperatures, and fear of a monstrous alien life form.

File:Defending Your Life - A New Hope.jpg|link=Defending Your Life: A New Hope|'''''[[Defending Your Life: A New Hope]]''''' is a 1977 American epic space allegory film about a man who finds himself on trial a long time ago in an afterlife far, far away.

File:Annie Got Her Gun.jpg|thumb|link=Annie Got Her Gun|'''''[[Annie Got Her Gun]]''''' is an anti-war Western comedy novel by American novelist Dalton Trumbo about sharpshooter Annie Oakley. 

File:Ghost Species - Way of the Shape-Changer.jpg|link=Ghost Species: The Way of the Shape-Changer|'''''[[Ghost Species: The Way of the Shape-Changer]]''''' is a 1999 horror science fiction crime film about a hitman in the employ of the Mafia (Forest Whitaker) who follows the ancient code of a shape-changing alien (Natasha Henstridge).

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== Fiction cross-reference ==

* ''[[Annie Got Her Gun]]''
* ''[[Big Thing in Little China]]''
* ''[[Defending Your Life: A New Hope]]''
* ''[[Ghost Species: The Way of the Shape-Changer]]''
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[Walking Heads]]

== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

== External links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton G. K. Chesterton] @ Wikipedia
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4lYjiTX4jE G. K. Chesterton, The Thing, The Catholic Church] @ YouTube

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=== Social media ===

* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1681600767210160129 Post] @ Twitter (18 July 2023)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1678092399673786370 Post] @ Twitter (9 July 2023)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1599848562409762817 Post] @ Twitter (5 December 2022)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1496140978188603400 Post] @ Twitter (22 February 2022)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1493708032412467205 Post] @ Twitter (15 February 2022)

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