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Indian Clown |
The role of the clown is not to take our minds off our troubles,
but to point out ways to survive and even laugh. He tells how
one man who was very devoted to his sacred clowning began to
think in his old age of ways he could be remembered as a clown.
His solution was to leave a last request, which was fulfilled
after his death. His nephews and sons dressed him in his clown
costume and carried him to a rooftop. The town crier assembled
all the people and then, after swinging the man's body between
them four times as they called out Yaasahhey, they threw his
corpse down, plop, into the plaza, laughing as they did so.
The people were surprised, but they laughed, too.
-- Unknown |
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