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# Podcast episode No. 0036: Anecdote of Carlina
- URL: https://www.improvesomething.today/podcast-episode-no-0036-anecdote-of-carlina/
- Published: 2026-02-04T21:00:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-23T16:58:18.000Z
- Author: Brian Kerr
- Tags: Podcast

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#### Episode details

A reading of two short passages, one from The Art of Public Speaking, by John Rippingham (1814), and the other from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘The Comic’ (1875). By way of [Wikipedia on the ‘sad clown paradox’](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad%5Fclown%5Fparadox#Pagliacci%5Fjoke) as shared [on Mastodon by John Overholt](https://glammr.us/@overholt/116002265582150373).

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