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Hunt describes the early Class Day as a carnival-like celebration which sometimes included circus elephants, clowns and "a good bit of drinking...
...tortured animal. My metaphor for Jim is a dog who's constantly beaten up by his owner. The dog can't figure out why. He tries everything to please his owner. He walks on his hind legs; he juggles. Nothing works. Then one day the circus comes along and scoops him up, and he makes a career...
...come by to meet him--and many, many strangers want to meet him these days--he and Mom Soona usually begin by showing them his artwork. He draws allegorical cartoons, zany characters with deeper meanings. Later this month Spin will run a sample depicting Mary's courtroom as a circus where Fear is the central, spear-wielding character...
...Paris he made more toys and, before long, a whole circus: lions and their tamers, an elephant, acrobats, trapeze artists, clowns, all made of wire and wood and cloth and cork, with himself as their enormous ringmaster manipulating them to music. To judge from the surviving film made of the circus in action, it was quite a show, and it appealed to the latent kid in every avant-gardist. It was le cirque Calder that got the young American full entry to the Parisian art world. This charming piece of performance art was one of the small sights of Paris...
America is a great country for stories these days, a circus with more attractions (fakirs, fire walkers, Oprahs, snake charmers, holy men, Geraldos) than Kipling's Grand Trunk Road of Hindustan. Life is a funny old raccoon. The raccoon works for the tabloids now but hopes to be a literary genius later...