Today being Hilaire Belloc’s birthday, I share one of his darkly comic “Cautionary Tales for Children.”
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Obey Your Parents or Face the Lion
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On Toddlers, Terrorists, and Loaded Guns
Among the ways that Donald Trump is repaying the NRA for its support is reversing an Obama executive decision designed to keep guns out of the hands of mentally handicapped persons. Hilaire Belloc would have something to say about America’s casual acceptance of guns.
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Open Season on Young Black Men
Hilaire Belloc satirically advocates dire punishment for childish misbehavior except when it comes to guns. The NRA would approve.
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America’s Obsession with Pie
Hilaire Belloc’s hilarious complaint about the world’s eating tastes would not treat Thanksgiving well.
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The Night Father Fell Out of Bed
I take a page from James Thurber and the author of Madeleine as I describe “The Night My Father Fell Out of Bed.”
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Moral Verse for Bad Little Children
When I was a child, I was a great fan of the tongue-in-cheek “cautionary verses” of English poet Hilaire Belloc. I have written in the past about how, in the Alice books, Lewis Carroll took off after those heavy-handed Victorian moralists who tried to scare children into good behavior. Belloc did more of the same, […]
