The team explore Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children, discussing the absurd comedy of the text and the incongruity theory of humour.


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Hilaire Belloc, along with G.K. Chesterton, is one of the classic Catholic authors of the early 20th Century – but he did not always take his pen to serious matters.


Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children, discussing the absurd comedy of the text and the incongruity theory of humour.


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Read Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children.


Read Edward Feser’s “Is it funny because it’s true?”.


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