Set Your Secrets Free Babe
All Clowns Share Secret Knowledge
Good clown, bad clown, laughing clown or crying clown wearing their hearts on their sleeves.
Clowns know the secret heart of their audience because at its highest artistry they are channeling their own. How else, but behind a mask, can you be yourself in a semi-tolerant world?
Speak the truth and say 'only joking.'
There are many things to be happy and sad about in this life, but few will tolerate it spoken aloud. Being depressed is uncomfortable for other people most of the time.
But as a clown you can sit under the big top, the audience enshadowed, bathed in a baroque spotlight with your wilted flower and broken dreams, tears painted on a face that is all cried out for everyone to see and for a few moments, if the magic is right, there will be a silence that hangs. A single note cannot be long maintained without its growing dull. The clown bursts like a cloud in uproarious thunder with a spritz of water and a chase.
There are those who may laugh with identification or empathy.
There are those who may laugh with a cruel streak of ridicule.
Regardless, the clown has spoken part of their truth and left.
Hopefully all are somewhat cleansed; some of loneliness and some of hate.
So much for the sad clown. What of the evil clown? Some are driven, partly, by a shard of devilish cruelty. Some long to kill the cat and kick the dog.
Who has not been shocked by the casual cruelty of children?
Who has not longed to play the devil on the hapless, the inane, the slobbering, the difficult or the boss?
An evil clown may be an insensitive creature playing in the field of desire. But could they also not be the sensitive or empathetic driven wild by an overload of pain in a modern world where to survive psychically one must be casually insensitive and cruel?
Who is the clown who cannot shut out the pain of others in modern, atomized urban life? Who has not picked at their own scab?
Litotes The Clown
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How can I lose when i don't even try?
- Litotes The Clown
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Image Credit:
enshadowed
Dave the Imperial Warhammer Darkest Thunder of the Wargods
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Good clown, bad clown, laughing clown or crying clown wearing their hearts on their sleeves. Clowns know the secret heart of their audience because at its highest artistry they are channeling their own. How else, but behind a mask, can you be yourself in a semi-tolerant world?
Speak the truth and say 'only joking.'
There are many things to be happy and sad about in this life, but few will tolerate it spoken aloud. Being depressed is uncomfortable for other people most of the time.
But as a clown you can sit under the big top, the audience enshadowed, bathed in a baroque spotlight with your wilted flower and broken dreams, tears painted on a face that is all cried out for everyone to see and for a few moments, if the magic is right, there will be a silence that hangs. A single note cannot be long maintained without its growing dull. The clown bursts like a cloud in uproarious thunder with a spritz of water and a chase.
There are those who may laugh with identification or empathy.
There are those who may laugh with a cruel streak of ridicule.
Regardless, the clown has spoken part of their truth and left.
Hopefully all are somewhat cleansed; some of loneliness and some of hate.
So much for the sad clown. What of the evil clown? Some are driven, partly, by a shard of devilish cruelty. Some long to kill the cat and kick the dog.
Who has not been shocked by the casual cruelty of children?
Who has not longed to play the devil on the hapless, the inane, the slobbering, the difficult or the boss?
An evil clown may be an insensitive creature playing in the field of desire. But could they also not be the sensitive or empathetic driven wild by an overload of pain in a modern world where to survive psychically one must be casually insensitive and cruel?
Who is the clown who cannot shut out the pain of others in modern, atomized urban life? Who has not picked at their own scab?
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How can I lose when i don't even try?
- Litotes The Clown
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Image Credit:
enshadowed
Dave the Imperial Warhammer Darkest Thunder of the Wargods
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