“Studies in Crap” ODs With “Fuzzy Mules, Pink Slippers Volume One: Came A Clown”
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Fuzzy Mules, Pink Slippers Volume One: Came a Clown
Author: McAllister
Ransom
Publisher: Kohinoor
Books, Baltimore
Date: 1990
Discovered at:
American Veterans Thrift Store, Allston, MA
The Cover Promises:
A clown named “Puzzles.” That doesn’t bode well. Also: “NAKED
SHE STOOD. NAKED AGAINST THE WORLD. THEY KIDNAPPED HER BABY.”
Representative
Quotes:
“Mr.
T., great and gallant man, was about as afraid of flying as a patriot
of truth.” (page 111)
“John
Eddy Ryan III; a grade A, first class, prime rib, numero uno creep .
. . His name was all that he had. His name his claim to fame. Would a
pile of poop called another name smell sweeter? Were it perfumed with
perfume of prose or poetry, ‘twould sweeter smell? Would you want to
eat it?” (127)
“She
just wanted to be happy and help others be happy, be their friend, to
be a friend of man, to serve man. To serve man using the claw hammer
of laughter removing the nails of woe from the coffin of care . . .
April just wanted to be the clown in the party of life. Life! Party!
Sure!” (145)
