![]() ![]() So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!Ĭurious. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. Yes! The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. There they were in the dark the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, Duchess with her dirk. When the Doge did his duty and the Duke didn't, that's when the Duchess did the dirt to the Duke with the Doge. Eh, uh, when the Doge does his duty to the Duke, that is. Well, uh, the Doge did what the Doge does. The first step of all wasn't hard to recall, 'cause the first step of all is to stand. The Spanish were clannish but I wouldn't vanish and learned every step they had planned. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen', alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades. When I got to Spain it was suddenly plain that the field that appealed was the dance. 'The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. I started to travel to try to unravel my mind and to find a new chance. But I'm proud to recall that in no time at all, with no other recourses but my own resources, with firm application and determination. No teacher to take me, to mold me and make me a merryman, fool or an elf. No butcher, no baker, no candlestick maker, and me with the look of a fine undertaker impressed her as a jester? But where was I to learn any comical turn? It was not in a book on a shelf. and cried, "He, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, *HE*! What else could he be but a jester?" A jester? A jester? A funny idea, a jester. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool. ![]() Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon you cannot. Joking is undignified that is why it is so good for ones soul. Leonard Jacobson In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. My father he shouted, "he needs to be clouted, his teeth on a wreath I'll hand him!" My mother she cried as she rushed to my side, "You're a brute and you don't understand him!" So they sent for a witch with a terrible twitch to ask how my future impressed her. It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Jester Quotes There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. ![]()
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