Because I am at a loss.

(They all look like balloons, bobbing along, hopping on one leg. I am curious about the understructure of the garments – whalebone or metal?)

From The Guardian, an article about clowns and how a lot of people don’t like them and kids almost universally distrust them; which makes total sense, what with their actually being The Trickster.

Trickster Makes This World – I’ve read this one, very fun.

Native American Tricksters of Myth and Legend – a listing of Trickster characters

And the trickster from the tarot gets mythologized –

Coyote, Hermes, The Raven, Loki – I do love a bad boy. Let’s pretend it’s a sophisticated understanding of the Absurd.