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By assuming a mask, everyone can behave like the animal-like characters of comedy. We can commit any sin while remaining innocent, and we are indeed innocent because we laugh. Carnival is the natural theatre in which animals and animal-like beings take over the power and become the masters. … The upside-down world has become the norm.
Umberto Eco, Carnival! (Approaches to Semiotics)
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Rosie Comer on Shufflebottom’s Show.
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A Journey Round My Skull: Walter Schnackenberg at the Carnival,1912
[Such a great post,thanks Will;]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lalrt0WmRt1qztk1wo1_r1_500.jpg)
A Journey Round My Skull: Walter Schnackenberg at the Carnival,1912
[Such a great post,thanks Will;]
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“Super surreal on-the-street style photos of costumed revelers at the 1903 New Orleans Carnival. The photographs were taken by a group of tourists from Illinois. They made a scrapbook of their trip, see it here. via Louisiana Digital Library”
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