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The Friday night show in Lakeland felt as if it should have ended our long first week, but the weekend loomed. Saturday morning, I woke earlier than reasonable and sprinted to the arena to apply my makeup, rushed through Come-in for 20 minutes, and ran in and out of the arena a dozen times over three hours. We grabbed a bite, then did it all over again. That night, third show, we plowed through another three-and-a-half hours. Earlier, while making up, I had snorted at Smitty’s jabber about the “bad advantages” of three shows a day but by midnight, his nonsense made a kind of sense.
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. Henry, “The Green Door”
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Carlyon, D. (2016). Rubber (Nose) Meets the Road. In: The Education of a Circus Clown. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137547439_4
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