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What an enlightening treatise!
Bluewyvern Started conversation Jun 28, 2003
One small quibble, though -- are you sure of your Voltaire quote? I would think he was a clown sympathizer. Surely. He was practically one himself. Perhaps the passage was from somewhere else -- Rousseau, maybe?
Anyway, fantastic read. I'm just working my way through all your grunts, enjoying them immensely!
-- Bluewyvern
What an enlightening treatise!
Dr Deckchair Funderlik Posted Jul 16, 2003
Hi Bluewyvern.
Sorry for the tardy reply but I just noticed this ... (Yes, reading through my own backlog - sadder you cannot get 
).
I believe that Rousseau discusses the clown as noble savage somewhere in his 'Confessions of a Pie Thrower'. Voltaire would have been a bit scared of clowns, I expect. He probably saw religion as clownish except without the big shoes, and he was a bit of an old Rationalist wasn't he?
I'm glad you're enjoying the grunts. 
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