Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 7/3/04: I think we'd make awesome circus clowns.

Jacob Lawrence, "Defeat," 1954 — Jacob Lawrence, *Defeat* (1954)

July 3, 2004:

I think we'd make awesome circus clowns. Aren't you dying to shoot me out of a canon? Many people certainly are.

But I think the circus role I'd most enjoy is the guy in red tails with gold braid who stands at the center of a circle of lovely women galloping around him on white horses, snapping a whip. That is a real circus role, isn't it?

Valadon was a circus girl.