Clown School chat reminds me of Animal Joy, an amazing book by poet, psychoanalyst, and clown (I guess) Nuar Alsadir. She does a brief course based on Gaulier's method and uses her experiences there as a way to get stuck into all sorts of sticky psychological questions. Her style is quite intellectual and associative (she's a psychoanalyst, after all), but some of the anecdotes from her 2(!) weeks of clown school are amazing.
asinine train fella sounds like the wario to Robert Wyatt's mario
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Clown School chat reminds me of Animal Joy, an amazing book by poet, psychoanalyst, and clown (I guess) Nuar Alsadir. She does a brief course based on Gaulier's method and uses her experiences there as a way to get stuck into all sorts of sticky psychological questions. Her style is quite intellectual and associative (she's a psychoanalyst, after all), but some of the anecdotes from her 2(!) weeks of clown school are amazing.
The first chapter of the book is excerpted here: https://lithub.com/how-psychoanalysis-and-clown-school-help-reveal-deep-seated-human-truths/
(and here's a link to book on the publisher's site: https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/animal-joy)