A COLLECTION OF SERIOUSLY-MINDED SATIRICAL TRAVERSTIES - ATHENAEUM LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY

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The Cabinet of Seriously-Minded Travesties. Descriptions of humourous controversial and often improbable situations incorporating  earnest writings of a political and philosophical nature  concealed under a cloak of wily impishness



CONTENTS

Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BC. Regarded by the Romans uniquely as their 'own’, satire had a special place in the Roman Imagination.

This Land is Our Land - Or is it? Nicholas Hancock
Big Lttle Teenie
 Robert Auler
När Jag Var Tsaren
(When I was Czar)
 Albert Engström
The Combination Room Tony Thomas
The Sale of Creeds Lucian
Spreading the Word Peter Rigby
Liberation of Motion Through Space Feral Faun
A Parody of Philosophy Anonymous
Back to Basics Nicholas Hancock
The Revelation Jud Evans
Flying Spaghetti Monsterism Bobby Henderson
The Gong Farmer Nicholas Hancock
Cheatin' Robert Auler
The Poet of Despair - The Works of Nicholas Hancock