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...e.’ Bozo grabbed the programme and his eyes lit up at the pictures of the clowns and elephants. ‘Are we going to the circus?’ he yelled happily. ‘May... ...emselves in ways they never thought possible…. 153 Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Clowns, Elephants and Clowns, Elephants and a Passage to India a Passage t... ...ginary friend. As long as they both laugh when I come on, I don’t care.’ ‘Clowns. You don’t have the sensitive nature of a dancer. For me, an empty ... ...auty in the arena.’ ‘But you perform your act blindfolded.’ ‘Like I said. Clowns. No sensitivity.’ ‘Shhh. We’re on in a minute.’ Theo could feel the ... ...able. He hoped there would be a clown. The Storyteller had told them that clowns were as close as could be found to Bloons anywhere in the Story. He ... ...hen you see the edited version featuring all the beautiful and funny 155 Clowns Elephants and a Passage to India bits. Think of all the wars, the ma... ...ircle of light as though it were a dog. The spotlight twitched uncer- 157 Clowns Elephants and a Passage to India tainly. The clown whistled again an... ...o, tap on the front three times and, abracadabra, the boy has gone!’ 159 Clowns Elephants and a Passage to India The door swung open and the crowd f... ... he nodded carefully. ‘When I was young, I also ran away to join the 161 Clowns Elephants and a Passage to India circus. How can I refuse you? But i...

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... before the apprehension that gives recognition, immediately? Geometers and clowns differ in one respect only, the definable quality of paradoxism,...

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... with admiration, and their attention couldn't be drawn away by a circus of clowns twirling kittens tied to dynamite thrown through a ring of fire. ...

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...d, animals are Donald Ducks, monsters in computer games, ever jolly animal clowns or scientific miracles restored from extinction by biotechnology. So...

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... great and good Once more in his home-country stood, Strange that the sordid clowns should show A dull desire to have him go. His clinging breeks, his...

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...at once confess to a fondness for pantomimes to a gentle sympa thy with clowns and pantaloons to an unqualified admi ration of harlequins an... ...ss chuckle. The pan taloon to the life! But the close resemblance which the clowns of the stage bear to those of every day life is perfectly extraord... ...he worthy and excellent old man when we say that this is downright nonsense. Clowns that beat Grimaldi all to nothing turn up every day, and nobody pa... ...l pantomime never was richer than at this day. We are particularly strong in clowns. At no former time, we should say, have we had such astonishing tu... ... may reflect with pride and gratification of heart on the proficiency of our clowns as exhibited in the season. Night after night will they twist and ... ...lled through a boxing night. It is especially curious to behold one of these clowns com pelled to go through the most surprising contortions by the i...

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.... And, trust me, they are the sweetest grapes that e’er I tasted. [The CLOWNS bounce at the gate, within .] DUKE. What rude disturbers have we a... ...with your hey pass and re pass: do you remember the dog’s fa— [Exeunt CLOWNS.] HOSTESS. Who pays for the ale? hear you, Master Doctor; now you ...

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...e a man unhappy. She likes handsome men, strong men, Alexanders, gymnasts, clowns. Her trainer, a horrible brute, used to beat her to make her supple,... ...s which Paz had spent on her furniture to sixty thousand. According to the clowns and the supers, Malaga was squandering money; and she now appeared a...

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...poor Yorick!”) Players. (First Player:) (Player King:) (Player Queen:) T wo Clowns, grave diggers. (First Clown:) (Second Clown:) FORTINBRAS: prince ... ... scene ii 52 HAMLET: O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; for there be of them that... ...; Therefore let’s follow. [Exeunt.] ACT V SCENE I: A churchyard. [Enter two Clowns, with spades, &c .] First Clown: Is she to be buried in Christian...

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... Grimaldi is get- ting a little old now, but for real humour there are few clowns like him. Mr Shuter, as the gravedigger, was chaste and comic, as he...

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...world of society. Jaques, Falstaff and his regi- ment, the varied troop of Clowns, Malvolio, Sir Hugh Evans and Fluellen—marvellous Welshmen!—Benedict...

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...n was a sort of Barnum, the director of a troupe of mountebanks, jugglers, clowns, acrobats, equilibrists, and gymnasts, who, according to the placard... ...vant, I can as a clown. You see, my friend, in France they exhibit foreign clowns, and in foreign parts French clowns.” “Ah!” “You are pretty strong, ...

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...ff. Comes swift to comfort me, the Panto- mime—stupendous Phenomenon!—when clowns are shot from loaded mortars into the great chandelier, bright const...

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...hem off with a gesture of command, which they instinctively obeyed. “Back, clowns, give him air. And here—one of you—bring some water from the river. ... ...ever mind, Edward,” said Harry, sharply—”who cares for arrows?—weapons for clowns, and not for Princes!” “Nay, not so, Lord Harry,” interrupted the th...

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...nce, suf- ficiently pointed him out as belonging to the race of domes- tic clowns or jesters, maintained in the houses of the wealthy, to help away th... ...ngs for shields provide. The yeomen guard the streets in seemly bands; And clowns come crowding on, with cudgels in their hands. Palamon and Arcite. T... ...from time to time wild bursts expressive of triumph or defiance, while the clowns grudged a holiday which seemed to pass away in inac- tivity; and old... ...y and courage may supply that defect, since we have only to do with rascal clowns.” “But, noble knights,” exclaimed Father Ambrose, amidst the bustle ... ...omen wax so pre- sumptuous as even to lay leaguer before castles, and that clowns and swineherds send defiances to nobles, since men-at-arms 264 Ivan...

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...ions of attitude, and the use- less demonstration of effort with which the clowns aimed their shafts and drew their bow, sometimes to find the arrow o... ...d.’ ‘T ush!’ answered Percy; ‘I’ d scorn to be confounded with a couple of clowns like them! Moreover,’ he added, with bet- ter reason, ‘their valour ...

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...seat, I saw (nor blush to add, 270 With ample recompense) giants and dwarfs, Clowns, conjurors, posture masters, harlequins, Amid the uproar of the ra...

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...-house; and now we have two-or three. We have also a distracting couple of Clowns and Pantaloons in our Pantomimes: though Colney says that the multip... ...ptuously, to be- come in the active, while it is exacted of hero Comedy of Clowns!—that in the passive she be a rockfortress impreg- nable, not to spe...

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...type of the ridiculous; his very name provokes laughter; he is the king of clowns. Now, instead of being enormously pot-bellied, absurdly amorous, vai... ...e a god rather than admit its own guilt. You are shedding upon two hundred clowns, sacrificed for a purpose, the tears you refuse to a generation, a c...

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... of absurd figures surrounded him, pretending to sympathize in his mishap. Clowns and party- colored harlequins; orang-outangs; bear-headed, bull-head...