Based on this conversation, now you might understand why I had a hard time understanding "Gospel clowning."
I understand where she is coming from, but this is exactly one of the difficulties I found; the stretching to find a religious connotation in a lot of what a clown is and does.
BTW, that was a very interesting book. She even talked about the "seriousness" in which a clown undertook putting on make-up, that the moment they were in it, would stop talking, which is why they put on soothing music to help them focus. It got a tad strange, here and there.
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