Voices of the Fools
Text from First Fools, April 2006
Fools References
from David Miller
- Beatrice K. Otto, Fools are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001)
- Jean Clair, The Great Parade: Portrait of the Artist as Clown (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004)
- William Willeford, The Fool and His Scepter: A Study in Clowns and Jesters and their Audience (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969)
- Jongleur (http://www.thenoodlebowl.com/jesters/)
“Qui non stultus?” ("Who is not a fool?")
--Horace, Satires, 2.3.158
“Stultorum plena sunt omni.” ("Everything is full of fools.")
--Cicero, Ad familiares 9.22
--Easmus, Moriae encomium 63
“Tutto è follia in questo mondo fuorché il folleggiare.” ("Everything in this world is folly, except playing the fool.")
--Giacomo Leopardi (1823)
The Moses and Abe story with which I ended the Saturday morning presentation is from: Jonathan Z. Smith, “Playful Acts of Imagination,” Liberal Education, 73/5 (Nov/Dec 1987: 14-20.
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