All Things Considered - G K Chesterton - Books - - 9798579647061 - January 18, 2021
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All Things Considered

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Book Excerpt: ...is not merely at the fact of something being hurt that we laugh (as I trust we do) when a Prime Minister sits down on his hat. If that were so we should laugh whenever we saw a funeral. We do not laugh at the mere fact of something falling down; there is nothing humorous about leaves falling or the sun going down. When our house falls down we do not laugh. All the birds of the air might drop around us in a perpetual shower like a hailstorm without arousing a smile. If you really ask yourself why we laugh at a man sitting down suddenly in the street you will discover that the reason is not only recondite, but ultimately religious. All the jokes about men sitting down on their hats are really theological jokes; they are concerned with the Dual Nature of Man. They refer to the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy. ...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 18, 2021
ISBN13 9798579647061
Pages 138
Dimensions 216 × 280 × 8 mm   ·   335 g
Language English  

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