Tears of a Clown / sobering up / narrative momentum

[Cometman]

> Has anyone seen Jerry Lewis' notorious "The Day the Clown Cried"?

"The Shooting Script" is a detective novel with "The Day the Clown
Cried" as the McGuffin

review here: http://thebestreviews.com/review26422

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drunk with good prose, I've been nattering on about Theodore Roosevelt.
 I'm dropping that as of now.

It's a cool sidelight for me, but it probably doesn't mean all that
much.  I've probably been building up the phantasmagoria more than it
deserves too.  But it's a really difficult image, and I got a lot out
of trying to picture it.

Now if I could just get some kind of a good feeling about the blue
baize/glyptic/terrible paper games at Whitehall, I could probably focus
on the bigger actions in the chapter.

I'm building up these things that caught my eye at the expense of
losing the narrative momentum.  Good thing TRP didn't!