NP except circuitously; a metaphor branches; goes mainstream

[Alex Colter]

Brings to mind 'Bread and circuses'...Pynchon, entering stage left, with
the skill of a train'd Magician begins the Ancient Circus Routine that
tells the story of "The Bourgeois Frenzy", a love-story  which most of the
Audience have seen before, tho' few, if any, remember...

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> LeCarre's name for the Intelligence Agency behind it all is "The Circus".
> Pynchon, others,
> use the concept to describe the crazy acrobatics and performances of
> (certain)
> social realities. [ I cannot offhand remember an exact use of circus in GR
> or ATD,
> and am not going to check but I do remember Carnivale, an inexact analogue
> is
> in AtD.] In Confidence Men, Ron Suskind uses it to describe the 2008
> campaign, "What
> amazed Obama was how big the whole circus had become, and how fast." [sic].
>
> I find in an article on Apple, 'the retail circus" .
>
> Below is the NYTimes today:
> "Foreclosure Auctions Show Raw Form of Capitalism
> 16 hours ago ... Foreclosure auctions have grown into a scruffy
> economic circus where bargain hunters from around the world have
> scooped up houses often sold ...
> January 15, 2012 - By KEN BELSON - U.S."
>
> And, to stick the landing, I ran the word 'circus' through Google Trends--
> a mapping of use and voila (and interesting, imho)
> http://www.google.com/trends/?q=circus&ctab=0
>
> Send in the clowns.
>
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